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Tag Archives: Drama
Everything Must Go (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A man stuck in his front lawn
“Everything Must Go” is a story with the simple premise both absurd and sad. He does not exactly hit the bottom, but his life, which has been stuck with lots of things while going nowhere, hits the spot near the … Continue reading
Dead Ringers (1988) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Twin gynecologists and one woman between them
When Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for his icy but humorous performance in “Reversal of Fortune”(1990), he thanked David Cronenberg at the end of his acceptance speech. He had a very good reason; in Cronenberg’s unforgettable medical drama “Dead Ringers”(1988), … Continue reading
Shame (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : Orgasm is drug for this lonely man
Whatever you think about sex addiction, you will not laugh about it after you watch “Shame”, an unforgettably harrowing film about one desolate human condition driven by sex addiction. Like the other types of addicts, the life of its hero … Continue reading
Blue Valentine (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It was love, but…
Was really it love? The couple in “Blue Valentine” probably asks that question many times to themselves while struggling to deal with the problem between them. Yes, it was love indeed, but the reality requires a lot more than love … Continue reading
Tiny Furniture (2010) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : The Unbearable Aimlessness of Being Graduated
Although it has the mood and feelings I can understand and appreciate, “Tiny Furniture” somehow kept losing my interest in spite of its admirable achievement on the screen. It virtually has no plot at all and I do not have … Continue reading
A Dangerous Method (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : The analysis of an academic triangle
The characters in “A Dangerous Method” talk, listen, discuss, disagree, and argue during the most of its running time, and they are very serious about what they deal with. The movie is surely a talky period drama, but it is … Continue reading
Take Shelter (2011) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A man getting disturbed by apocalyptic visions
One professor at my department, who studied neuroscience, once told us something you have probably heard from somewhere: if you think you are crazy or getting crazy, that means you are not crazy because crazy people do not know that … Continue reading
The Truman Show (1998) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : It’s a good life
In one science magazine I used to read during my high school years, one of my favorites was the section on the science in SF movies(the magazine is still published monthly; whenever I come across them at the campus book … Continue reading
The Iron Lady (2011) ☆☆(2/4) : Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher – and what else?
I remember the bland biographies of famous historical figures I read from time to time during my innocent childhood. Written for inspiring young elementary school kids like me, they were usually packaged together and then sold to the good-intentioned parents … Continue reading
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