Love of Your Life Review: Grief Looks Almost Too Beautiful
The film spends a long time teaching us how secure Maya’s future looks before one date, March 2020, tears that...
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The Last Photograph keeps asking you to recoil from violence, then gives you an image composed carefully enough to admire. That tension is uncomfortable, sometimes productively so. Zack Snyder has made a film about a photographer who can look at a dead body and think first about the picture it might become, yet Snyder himself remains irresistibly drawn to blood, skin, movement, and suffering as visual material. For a while, that contradiction gives the film a strange emotional charge. Eventually, it starts to feel like a trap the movie cannot escape. Joe Wallace, played by Fra Fee, is introduced having...

Patricia Highsmith keeps arsenic in the kitchen, knives on the wall, snails in a tank, and a blank sheet of paper in her typewriter. One of these objects is supposed to be frightening. A Talent for Murder spends much of its running time changing its mind about which one. Anton Corbijn’s film, adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith from her play Switzerland, imagines Highsmith near the end of her life in 1995, barricaded inside her Swiss home and refusing to produce another Tom Ripley novel. Her publisher sends Edward Ridgeway, a young employee played by Alden Ehrenreich, to change that. The previous...

There is a corpse in the freezer, dementia in the family, an affair unfolding in a leisure centre storage room, and Denise Welch complaining about a smell that everyone else is desperately trying to explain away. Forever Home has enough tonal material for three Channel 5 dramas and the confidence to cram it into one. The surprise is that this occasionally makes the series entertaining. The problem is that it occasionally makes the serious parts feel as though they have wandered into the wrong programme. Carol Crottie is living with Robert Barrie, whose recent dementia diagnosis has made their future...

Emma spends much of All That She Wants mistaking embarrassment for evidence. A degrading commercial shoot has her dancing in a Santa-themed costume beside an oversized feminine hygiene product, her longtime boyfriend treats commitment like a clerical error, and her younger sister’s pregnancy quietly exposes a desire Emma has spent years postponing. None of these things proves that her life has gone wrong. Emma reads them that way anyway. That distinction matters because David West Read’s screenplay keeps placing Annie Murphy’s Emma in situations where humiliation becomes a form of self-surveillance. She is watching herself age, watching other people reach...

A diagnosis can turn the body into foreign territory, but Onwards and Sideways is equally interested in what happens when illness changes a person’s relationship with work, family, embarrassment, desire, and the culture around them. Paul Mayhew-Archer’s screenplay has the lived specificity of someone who knows Parkinson’s from inside the condition, while John Madden directs it through the familiar language of British crowd-pleasing drama. That tension gives the film much of its strength and nearly all of its limitations. Its knowledge feels personal. Its dramatic machinery often feels inherited. Rhys Ifans plays Tony, a widowed teacher whose frozen right hand...

The film spends a long time teaching us how secure Maya’s future looks before one date, March 2020, tears that future apart. That structural choice is risky. Rachel Morrison makes the romance so warm, polished, and inviting that the early stretch can seem almost excessively sweet. Yet the sweetness has a job to do. We need to understand the life Maya thinks she has secured before the film asks her, and us, to imagine surviving its disappearance. Maya, played by Margaret Qualley, is a Boston nurse whose life largely consists of exhausting hospital shifts and emotional self-protection. She meets Charlie...
The film spends a long time teaching us how secure Maya’s future looks before one date, March 2020, tears that...
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Read moreDetails"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has become the highest-grossing movie in domestic box office history, surpassing "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" after the J.J. Abrams film had held the record for a decade. Sony's Tom Holland vehicle crossed the threshold this week with a running North American total of $936.7 million,...
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Patricia Highsmith keeps arsenic in the kitchen, knives on the wall, snails in a tank, and a blank sheet of paper in her typewriter. One of these objects is supposed...
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