How to Find a Happy Place - Palm Springs

What does your perfect day entail? Would you want it to be a special day or a more mundane one? Would you do the same thing every day or switch it up? Is there someone you would want to go through those repetitive days with? These are the questions the film tries to grapple with and once it finds its footing, it reaches some surprisingly deep conclusions.

As Rough As It Gets - Uncut Gems

The Safdies’ vision is so refined and distilled that it is hard not to be sucked into this world. Like an exquisite meal where you get something stuck in your teeth, at the very least, I can assure you you won’t forget it.

1917

The camera moves as if riding on the back of a ghost, creating perfect shot after perfect shot. It moves seamlessly from mounted on a vehicle to hand-held, all while maintaining Roger Deakins’ flawless vision. With no obvious cuts or editing artifice, you are left feeling as if you are actually there.

Crashing - Waves

His films are able to wick the emotion out of their stories and put them right there on the surface. Whether or not you enjoy that sort of nakedly affecting filmmaking feels entirely subjective. But what is not subjective is that this could have been more.

Pieces of You - Marriage Story

In both major and minor strokes, it is an unforgettable experience that will make you examine the through lines relative to your own life. There are pieces of you in this story because there are pieces of all of us.

Dolemite Is My Name

With “Dolemite Is My Name,” Eddie Murphy is back; and not just back in the sense of limelight, but back to doing what he does best. Making people laugh with his unique brand of incisive humor and irreverence.