Zootopia
Prejudice – in all its forms – is the concept under the microscope here. And the screenplay to Zootopia is very, very good at examining said prejudice from every angle.
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Tag Archives: Drama
How to Be Single
How to Be Single isn’t offensive in its approach, it’s just that the moral of the story isn’t entirely clear.
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Anomalisa
Anomalisa was created with possibly the best stop motion animation I’ve ever seen.
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Room
Room makes for harrowing viewing – indeed, the film hasn’t left my mind in the 24 hours since I’ve seen it – but somehow it keeps the darkness just out of frame.
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When Marnie Was There
If The Wind Rises disappointed with its sidelining of female characters (quite out of character for Ghibli), When Marnie Was There makes for a great panacea.
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Haemoo
Thanks to a fantastic opening montage, we get a true sense of the type of lives the fishermen lead.
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Learning to Drive
I’m usually a big fan of Clarkson’s work, but her character oscillates from pensive to madcap to easy going in a way that feels inconsistent.
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The Martian
Scott is fantastic at his science fiction world-building, and The Martian is no exception.
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Mr. Holmes
Mr. Holmes is not a fun whodunit, nor is it action comedy, nor is it a study of an arrogant psychopath. Instead, it’s a sombre tale about a man coming to terms with his own mortality.
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54 Days
There are a few moments that had me on the edge of my seat – one sequence involving Morse code made brilliant use of onscreen text – but they weren’t maintained for long enough.
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