Uncut Gems6. As a big screen event, however, it never justifies bringing these toys back out of the box. The Best AV Club Movies 2009-2020 by viccenzo | created - 07 Feb 2019 | updated - 1 month ago | Public Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc Even critics seemed unaware of the film’s release; had more of them seen it, I bet it would have popped up on a number of best-of lists this season. And yet to watch The Irishman, his gangster opus to end all gangster opuses, is to be constantly reminded of the promise of mortality—his, ours, everyone’s. Her Smell6. The Irishman4. That’s a lot of movies—nearly one for every day on the calendar, in fact. Sword Of Trust14. No other 2019 movie spoke so clearly to the mess we find ourselvEs in. ... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Women's History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central ... X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi . Parasite13. Even the serial killers preach the dangers of sexual assault. Parasite7. Too Late To Die Young12. What emerges is a cautionary tale about the terrifying power of propaganda, as well as a clarion call for the importance of reproductive rights. Dec 06, 2019 5:40 AM. Asako I & II11. Eddie Murphy’s hyper-charismatic take on Rudy Ray Moore feels at odds with the irony and offbeat cool of the blaxploitation star, and funnymen Keegan-Micheal Key and Craig Robinson go criminally underused. Jonathan Levine’s playful but sincerely felt rom-com seemed to vanish from the cultural consciousness not long after it arrived. Appropriate to Peele’s expertly navigated horror-to-comedy-to-domestic-drama tonal shifts, there’s a virtuosic range to the performances—especially that of Lupita Nyong’o, playing predator and prey, sometimes within the same seamless split-diopter shot. Midsommar14. The Lighthouse10. It has fucking Ad Astra on here, which is one of the worst films of the decade. Top 50 Best Movies of 2017 . So I was delighted that Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Isn’t It Romantic strikes just the right balance between poking fun at rom-com tropes and wholeheartedly embracing the power of the genre, all while creating a zany comedic voice all its own. Club staff and contributors still took on the task, submitting ranked ballots of our top 15 shows to bring you the 25 best shows of 2020. ), The King drags through a familiar formula. Instead, the Aussie writer-director chased her debut with a much riskier kind of horror movie: a wilderness rape-revenge thriller of such extreme violence and despair that it screened with a trigger warning at some venues. Putting out two movies in one year is a classic Steven Soderbergh move, but there hasn’t been a gap in quality between his same-year films as broad as the one between High Flying Bird, one of the best films of 2019, and The Laundromat, one of the most embarrassing. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire6. Like the French director’s previous films, this LSD-fueled dance movie overwhelms the viewer with sheer bodily sensation, and in this case features two of the most impressive set pieces of his career: an opening number set to Cerrone’s “Supernature,” captured in a single unbroken take; and a hypnotic, Busby Berkeley–style overhead view of a dance circle that’s impossible not to imagine in 3D. [Katie Rife], Jennifer Kent could have haunted a hundred different (Blum)houses in the aftermath of her spooky sleeper The Babadook, and gotten paid handsomely to do so. But the movie is also just beautiful and exciting on a moment-to-moment basis—as both a low-key romance and as a gory thriller. [Allison Shoemaker]. Sundance has long since become a farm league for the majors, but there are still some true American independents left—among them Joel Potrykus, whose latest, Relaxer, is a gross-out slacker fairytale about a telekinetic man-child (Joshua Burge) who refuses to leave the couch until he beats level 256 of Pac-Man. Yikes. Club will have reviewed over 350 movies released this year. Sophie Lorain’s French-Canadian teen sex comedy didn’t get much play in U.S. theaters—which is a shame, because it’s a shiny black-and-white gem. In My Room9. Call me a philistine, but I think the film would work better in chronological order; the back-and-forth flashback structure leaves it without emotional arcs. With no escape, no future, and no hope, a collection of interconnected locals fixate on the rumors they’ve heard about an elephant in the nearby city of Manzhouli that peacefully sits, indifferent to the suffering of the world. [A.A. Dowd], Christian Petzold’s adaptation of a 1944 Anna Seghers novel collapses the past and the present into a liminal temporal space. A Hidden Life5. Awkwafina gives an alternately funny and heartbreaking lead performance, as a nonconformist New York artist who finds this whole scheme ridiculous and who could, at any minute, blow it all up. It turns out that Armin (Hans Löw), a fuckup in his professional and personal life, needed humanity’s unexplained demise to discover his own utility. Rather than focus on a single character, Leigh takes a somewhat experimental route, narrowing his attention to the varying textures of speech within the collective to ultimately show how the relationship between rhetoric and action is fraught with misapprehension. Transit6. Wild Rose9. The movie quickly goes from breathless to suffocating, from airtight to merely airless. Little Women3. Set in the occupied Tasmania of 1825, The Nightingale starkly depicts the evils of colonialism as visited upon an Irish convict (Aisling Franciosi) and the Aboriginal tracker (Baykali Ganambarr) she’s hired to guide her through the bush in pursuit of the English soldiers who destroyed her life. High Flying Bird3. What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?13. Anchored by the tremendous Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hart’s film takes a bunch of familiar tropes and breathes new life into them by folding in issues of fear, addiction, and race. Knives Out9. Great Margot Robbie performance though. Chris Morris’ follow-up to Four Lions was almost completely ignored in the States, possibly because a satire about a delusional cult leader who appropriates black revolutionary rhetoric might not be kosher in 2019. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Portrait Of S Lady On Fire9. High Flying Bird13. [Katie Rife], For more than two decades, the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke has chronicled the shifting mores and generational values of his home province of Shanxi with a poet’s sense of irony. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire joins the canon of our most lushly realized period romances, all while defiantly carving out a space of its own. Having worked together on TV (Maron, Glow) and a stand-up special, director Lynn Shelton and comedian Marc Maron reunited for this low-delight about the perils of fake news, the latter in peak form, delivering sarcasm and heartbreak with ease. American Factory10. That the movie has been largely praised for its craft is hardly shocking, as every showboating moment of it begs for praise. [Jesse Hassenger], Last year, Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting examined Bay Area gentrification with contrasting absurdity and sincerity. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood6. But right from his opening shot, a morbid parody of the Copacabana sequence in Goodfellas, Scorsese foregrounds the inevitable. Midsommar14. But the Texas filmmaker ran smack into his limitations with this long-delayed Maria Semple adaptation, a quirky family drama that jettisons the mystery of its source material, leaving its audience with the larger mystery of figuring out—scene for scene—what’s being lost in translation. [Noel Murray], Claire Denis’ meditative sci-fi drama High Life lives in the extremes of human experience. What lingers with this one is envy that I didn’t have the experience so many others had. The Souvenir10. Club counted down its favorite movies of the 2010s. Under The Silver Lake3. Parasite7. Movies The 10 Best Movies of 2019 Plus the best of the decade. With the world on fire, it’s no wonder so many major filmmakers are looking now to the stars. Despite star Emily Beecham’s unexpected Best Actress win at Cannes back in May, the latest from Austrian master Jessica Hausner got largely lost in the shuffle at the Croisette and again when it came to theaters in December. That’s the centRal idea of David RobErt Mitchell’s wonderfully Weird pseudo-noir, Under The Silver LAke, in which a bliSsfully unemployed, perpeTually lascivious, morally dubIous L.A. goofball (ANdrew Garfield, hilariously self-deprecatinG) starts inVestigating the mysterious disappearance of A new neighbor (RiLey Keough) and finds himself sUcked deeper and deeper into what Appears to be an elaBorate citywide cipher. [Roxana Hadadi], A young woman is abandoned by her lover, only to fall for a man who looks just like him some years later, triggering a series of emotional dilemmas pestered by the memory of her first romance. As young filmmaker Julie, Honor Swinton Byrne remains our constant in the story that keeps ruthlessly, elegantly cutting ahead in time; her endless empathy anchors us from the moment we arrive in a new present tense. But however firmly Scorsese has planted himself on the vanguard, however relevant and vital and, yes, alive he remains as an artist, his latest triumph is a stark acknowledgment of what’s coming. It’s truer in 2018 than it was in 2017, or 2016, or 2015: Any survey of the year’s best TV can only provide a tiny sampling of the finest the medium had to offer. But there’s a kind of blissful transcendence in watching this diverse dance troupe’s ecstatic movements, accompanied by the director’s aggressive yet elegant orchestrations of light and sensation. All the same, it finds fresh wonders up there, from lunar pirates to fast-food franchises gone intergalactic. Mangold stages the 24 Hours of Le Mans race with an action director’s command of suspense, but he pays plenty of attention to his characters, too. Her Smell10. The Last Black Man In San Francisco’s multifaceted questions about belonging are answered by a staggeringly tragic conclusion that argues, bleakly but believably, that no amount of culture can rival capital. 1. I was lukewarm on Nicolas Pesce’s debut The Eyes Of My Mother, which made his sleek, sexy, sadistic sophomore effort hit me like an ice pick to the skull. Shot on a single set that was built inside a suburban garage, Relaxer distills the themes of alienation, obsession, and personal apocalypse of earlier Potrykus micro-budget oddities like Buzzard and The Alchemist Cookbook, while also exhibiting his considerable technical evolution as a filmmaker. Transit5. Painter Marianne (Noémie Merlant) challenges the limits placed on female artists in the 18th century, while young noblewoman Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) refuses to sit for a portrait that’s part of an arranged marriage she doesn’t want. Nevertheless, anyone who loved the likes of Lucy and Nikita will likely enjoy this gonzo super-spy extravaganza, with its clever nesting-doll narrative structure. Structured like a zero-gravity Apocalypse Now but gooey as Xenomorph guts, Ad Astra says it’s the mysteries of inner space rather than the outer kind that really matter. Those who stick with it are rewarded with a powerfully moving vision of solidarity among survivors—a film that resonates, like most of the great Westerns, with the present world. Built around a writer (Kim Minhee) who people-watches at a small café, it’s a melancholy meditation on the limits of artistic expression and the mysteries that remain beyond its purview. Us15. Marriage Story14. Welcoming back a celebrity whose fallen out of public approval can seem like the amnesiac outcome of icky PR stunts, especially when the person in question has done legitimately foul things. In Hollywood2. Terrence Malick’s look at the life of WWII conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter was high on my list of most anticipated films, despite the fact that I hadn’t loved any of his features since The Tree Of Life. Yet I enjoyed every minute of this maximalist, oversaturated smorgasbord of 360-degree pans, changing aspect ratios, and Pitchfork-approved needle drops. The Farewell6. Monos9. Holiday12. But if a filmmaker wants to cast himself as a pathetically insecure, controlling cuck, and throw in footage of bulls or whatever, I’m all for it. From the moment that Heath Ledger first pulls off his clown mask to reveal his scarred-up clown makeup, Batman becomes a supporting character in his own movie. 1. Parasite9. That’s the act of violence that protagonist Reed (Christopher Abbott) must refrain from committing on his infant daughter, so he instead channels his homicidal impulses onto a sex worker (Mia Wasikowska). Sometimes the messiness is the point. I’d expect something this fiendishly clever from the thriving indie horror community, but Fox Searchlight funding a nasty horror-thriller that blends Clue with You’re Next? As a result, its most potent moments are visual. So what the hell happened at the box office? By the time Phillips was coyly telling journalists that maybe Joker wasn’t about the Joker, the movie’s hollowness was clear. When Armin meets another survivor (Elena Radonicich), they cautiously enter into a relationship, but eventually come up against numerous red flags, all of which would have become apparent even if they had met under less extreme circumstances. In both cases, though, the conviction is missing, and crazed ambition leads only to hollow tedium. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. I’m always ridiculously excited to see the sophomore effort of a director whose feature debut knocked my socks off—after all, they have a perfect track record! Gloria Bell15. Grass10. Perry also expertly calibrates just how much of Becky’s sometimes poignant, oft-disturbing volatility we can take, repeatedly moving her out of the room or into a soundproof area and letting supporting characters (Agyness Deyn and Gayle Rankin as Becky’s bandmates, Eric Stoltz as her manager, Dan Stevens as her ex) provide contextualizing counterpoint. Sunset8. Ash Is Purest White3. As a made-for-TV follow-up, it’d make for perfectly fine afternoon viewing. This is one of the best superhero movies not only this year but ever. Must be nice, to be so detached from the stakes of public life that you believe fascism can be halted with hugs. During a six-month lockout, agent Ray Burke (André Holland) plans to revolutionize how basketball is played. Relaxer14. Mine has to be Waves, Trey Edward Shults’s miserablist soap opera of all-American suffering. Transit6. Despite the movie’s eclecticism, Bong’s hairpin turns are executed with sleek precision, never dropping focus from how this family will do what they can to spend some time above ground, heads above water, inside the wealthy host home where they’ve insinuated themselves. While most of the country still doesn’t have access to movie theaters (and having movie theaters open in certain cities doesn’t mean it’s actually safe yet! Uncut Gems2. 1. The Farewell7. But the rhythmic, sensuous pleasures that I’ve come to associate with the French director’s prodigious body of work are all but absent from High Life. The original story is more cynical and matter-of-fact about a system stacked against a handful of women who think they’ve finally found an angle of attack. I thought Shults’s debut, Krisha, was overpraised, and I know I should be too smart for this one—which, among other crimes against good taste, offers up notions of sin, forgiveness, and class so simplistic that they would make Lars von Trier roll his eyes. This father-daughter drama from Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj went largely unseen amidst the year’s steady rush of Netflix releases. Knives Out13. Writer N.K. The Souvenir8. Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood3. Her Smell2. [Katie Rife], One day, Martin Scorsese will die. ... Not only for making “The Irishman,” his best movie in a long time and one of the best of 2019 (see below), but also for reminding the world of the value of cinema. Not nothing, but not a lot either. Gerwig’s masterstroke was scrambling the story’s chronology and reassembling it, a choice that allows us to see the growth and transformation of Louisa May Alcott’s famous characters through a new lens, and which even grants unexpected ambiguity to a narrative that will be familiar to many viewers. From our list of the best made-for-TV movies and miniseries of the ’00s:. Parasite11. Her Smell3. The first film from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions is inherently political, but it’s more complex than agitprop. A major studio green-lighting a film that rivals Knives Out in its pointed contempt for the 1%, but with a significantly higher body count? He should’ve leaned into the novel’s irony instead of embracing undercooked sincerity. TV Shows. Posted in r/movies by u/Shakespearean_Rumba • 15 points and 36 comments Weyes Blood, Titanic Rising. Shadow9. Best Of. Shia Labeouf, as actor and writer, bares his soul in unexpectedly compelling ways, reckoning with the ugly parts of himself while confronting, with remarkable lucidity, the traumas that have come to define him. The first is to be expected from Quentin Tarantino, who’s made a career out of witty, reference-laden banter. And yes, writer-director Lorene Scafaria tells this tale of vengeful strippers with energy and pizazz. Marriage Story3. The Souvenir7. When the Mexican consulate mistakes him for the man in question, Georg assumes his identity and takes his boat ticket out of the country, but ends up wrestling with the deception after he falls in love with the writer’s wife (Paula Beer). Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. Long Day’s Journey Into Night. If we’re lucky, The Irishman says, we get to pick out our own coffin. But “impressive” isn’t the same thing as “involving”—and in fact, the lengths 1917 goes to present itself as a single, unbroken shot often undermine its drama, drawing much attention to the virtuosic filmmaking at the expense of immersing us in the plight of its beleaguered grunts. There are grace notes, but they can’t compensate for Linklater’s inability to crack these characters or relationships. Parasite2. 1. Georg (Franz Rogowski) flees from Paris to Marseilles with the manuscript and identification papers of a dead writer. Our Time8. Luce12. Under her direction, Hustlers becomes a feminist counterpoint to typically all-male mob stories, taking the misogynist language of gaslighting and slut-shaming and turning it back onto men who underestimate and objectify women. In Hollywood10. With a three-part structure of changing eras and fortunes that recalls the director’s flawed but compelling Mountains May Depart, Ash Is Purest White feels in many ways like a summary of Jia’s career to date. (See the other cosmic journey a few spots down from here.) High Life2. Though his behavior adapts to fit his new surroundings, his personality remains defiantly static. [Noel Murray], At the beginning of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, a family’s cramped basement apartment fills with menacing-looking fumigation chemicals, and for a moment it seems that this might be one of the writer-director’s more overtly fantastical horror shows, like The Host or Snowpiercer. 5.7. Marriage Story14. Club. There’s no denying that Bong Joon Ho knows exactly what he’s doing in Parasite, packaging class commentary and capitalist critique within a shape-shifting genre film. On the flip side, I’m always downright eager to avoid English-language remakes of foreign films, even (or maybe especially) when the original director helms the new one as well. not really, that movie was a 10 minute short stretched to feature length with no content added. Honey Boy15. Hustlers8. But something’s off. Bombshell turns the complicated women of Fox News into one-note totems of female empowerment, all while patting itself on the back for the important work it’s doing. (Specifically, it came out of the Fantasia Film Festival, where it premiered after I’d left for the year.) A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood7. Ad Astra13. [Caroline Siede], Elisabeth Moss hits such ferocious heights and depths as Becky Something, the self-destructive frontwoman of punk band Something She, that it’s easy to perceive Her Smell simply as a showcase for her intense performance. Movies. Under The Silver Lake12. Give Me Liberty8. Who knows how our decade rundown will age from here, but one thing does seem certain already: It will look woefully light on the great movies of 2019. Little Women5. In this fraught political climate, rarely has a film made such an obvious point so effectively: It is happening again. 1. And like Marty, she employs flashy editing and camerawork in service of more than just pure sensation. In Hollywood to really appreciate it. Knives Out10. If Ford V. Ferrari had been made in 1969 instead of 2019, Steve McQueen would obviously star as Ken Miles, given that the actor was an amateur racecar driver himself. Club has gone back chronologically through the last few months, beginning in January, and singled out our favorites, noting how and where they can be watched. There are sequences almost too brutal to watch, but this harrowing plunge into a dark historical chapter never slips into grindhouse gratuitousness. One Child Nation12. But Part 1, consisting of the first two episodes, would have been my #2 for the year. The Nightingale13. Mike Leigh’s sprawling dramatization of the events leading up to the 1819 Peterloo massacre features a colorful big band of working-class revolutionaries and government cronies. By the end of 2019, The A.V. Uncut Gems13. Wounds starts out as a marvelously written and acted look at life in one seedy dive bar, before becoming an impressively disgusting journey into Lovecraftian madness. The Nightingale15. Film Twitter has long championed Dev Patel as a potential choice for the next choice for James Bond, and there is no stronger audition tape than the Michael Winterbottom thriller The Wedding Guest. Following a trio of close female friends navigating the turbulent singles market of a big-box toy store where they all work, Lorain moves her camera and choreographs her talented actors with musical grace. But despite its promising cast, which includes the likes of Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris, and Robert Pattinson (as a caricatured Frenchman no less! Among my favorites is One Child Nation, which examines the one-child policy that lasted in China from 1979 to 2015. High Life is Denis’ first movie in English, but as in many of her films, long stretches of time pass in silence. 12/16/19 8:00AM. Menu. As Morris has pointed out multiple times, that’s not what he does. The Nightingale. Cliff and Rick aren’t quite over the hill, but they’re definitely cresting it, and the film grapples with the collision of the male ego against the brick wall of middle age with both comedy and pathos. Initially declared a failure after its disastrous premiere at Cannes in 2018, Under The Silver Lake has since gained a cult of critical followers substantial enough to propel it to #10 on The A.V. Marriage Story8. Together, the two women push past the boundaries of social propriety with their slow-burning romance. 1. In My Room9. But The A.V. The Souvenir12. Her Smell15. Us11. High Flying Bird11. The best movies of 2019 reflect the frustration of being on the fringe for most filmgoers, the conundrum of access and elitism that most people … Underneath the sprightly filmmaking and delightful performances, the movie touches upon the mixed messages that can define or derail a teenage girl’s romantic experiences. Under The Silver Lake8. Whatever it may be, The Dead Don’t Die is funnier than it is profound, and for Jarmusch, that’s damning praise. After a famous mystery novelist dies of an apparent (but very suspicious) suicide on his 85th birthday, an anachronistic “gentleman sleuth” (Daniel Craig) arrives to investigate the family of the deceased—a rogues’ gallery of useless modern-day aristocrats that includes a trust-fund playboy, an “alt-right” shitposter, and a New Age lifestyle guru. Marriage Story2. Ad Astra. Apollo 11. News, stories, photos, videos and more. Yet, it exists. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire5. Peele, working with the talented cinematographer Mike Gioulakis (who also shot another movie on this list, as well as M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass), has only grown as a visual artist, summoning a richly shadowed world that follows his characters around, even in broad daylight, in a kind of permanent haunting. These perspectives become even more sharply defined when you look at the individual ballots, which reveal both our consensus picks for the year’s best and our personal favorites. But the film interrogates her knee-jerk distrust for the happiness of others as chemical delusion, before guiding her to a more difficult and mature realization. But shouldn’t the Atomic Blonde guy making the biggest-budget Statham vehicle ever come up with something a little more exciting than a movie that stops cold for multiple big-name comedy actors to vamp and threaten to turn up for the inevitable sequels? Peterloo12. Us also makes a perfect class-vengeance-from-below double feature with #3 on this very list. Andy Muschietti’s 2017 version of It wasn’t the horror masterpiece some made it out to be, but at least it was scary. An Elephant Sitting Still14. 5. In the crowd-pleading Hustlers, she’s the center of an ensemble whose camaraderie is so genuine, you can’t help but get an empowering contact high. A scientist (Emily Beecham) breeds a flower that makes those sniffing it feel a deep contentedness, and then suspects it of brainwashing everyone around her. To be honest, I’m as susceptible to this stuff as anyone else, but I still think that the current market dominance of Disney product (whether it’s Marvel, Star Wars, or those awful live-action remakes) has had an overwhelmingly negative impact on Hollywood and on movie audiences. It’s politics rendered poetic. He also tells a rich and provocative story, about two basically decent people who suffer mightily once they turn their irreconcilable differences over to the rough justice of family court. Norton does solid work as a gumshoe with Tourette’s, but can’t help falling into Rain Man-like schtick. And his film becomes, in its magnificently bleak final stretch, a meditation on the true consequences of the mob life, the ignoble end awaiting men like Henry Hill, Sam Rothstein, and the film’s own protagonist, mafia hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro, weaponizing the sleepiness of his latter-day work into a devastating portrait of moral absence). Waves15. Yet, it exists. (Wang was born under it and interviews many of her family members.) In Hollywood. BEST MOVIES of 2018. Already on the brink of implosion, Sandler’s Howard Ratner can’t stop making bets, convinced that his financial (and personal) salvation will come by way of a grapefruit-size lump of Ethiopian black opal. During this trying year, it was difficult to distinguish between our favorite shows and the best shows. Under The Silver Lake8. No paranormal activity could be so haunting. But you will find passion, and lots of it. Transit4. HBO had a real job of work on its hands when it decided to give over seven hours of programming to an adaptation of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels In America.There were those who thought that Kushner, adapting his own work, would get overindulgent, and others who thought the play—written a dozen … They’re ruled over by a mad scientist played by Juliette Binoche, whose perverse obsession with human reproduction makes her the warped creation goddess of the piece. If this is a dad movie, then I guess I’m a dad. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky], In Noah Baumbach’s most complete picture to date, the stalwart indie filmmaker combines the vivid slice-of-life vignettes of Frances Ha with the unflinching self-examination of The Squid And The Whale. Parasite5. Parasite7. Might have been less awful with a different lead actor—if your protagonist is somebody whose resting heart rate never elevates above 80, do not cast Brad Pitt, who reliably threatens to go comatose when he’s not actively engaged. Before tragically taking his own life two years ago, Hu transmuted his own depression into a force that cannot be overcome and cannot be looked past. Marriage Story11. Could any actor hope to disappear into the role of Mister Rogers, to compete with our memories of this beloved TV personality? Yet while it comes clothed as a pop melodrama, this latest film from the Japanese writer-director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi brings remarkable depth to the trope of the cinematic double by probing the nature of fantasy and the slippery expectations often appended to our understanding of love and desire. The simple notion of having Charlotte (Charlize Theron, in her best performance of the year) finally let loose, only to wind up having to deal with pressing matters of state, was such a clever subversion of one trope and such a new take on another that it’s amazing we haven’t seen it discussed more frequently.
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