Another film that was shot pre-pandemic, but now feels like it has taken on a whole new meaning, American indie director Chad Hartigan’s fourth feature, Little Fish, is an effective, creative tale of love and loss in the time of a viral outbreak
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One of the most layered, best performed, technically complex, and thoroughly convincing dramas of the year, director and co-writer Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is an absolute powerhouse of a film.
Dan Fogelman’s almost admirably insane Life Itself serves as a deep dive into the psyche of the creator of television’s hit series This is Us.
Author Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One was an obvious choice for a film adaptation considering the amount of nostalgia that has crept into everything these days. The trouble with the book, was always going to be how much time the characters spend re-creating scenes from movies, which would have been dull to watch, and likely hard to get the rights to even do. The book also has a fairly weak, mixed up story, so I was dubious what director Steven Spielberg could do with the concept.