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Review by James Carneiro | Jan 26, 2025
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach’s wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Review by James Carneiro | Jan 08, 2025
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In 2002, Roger Ebert called it "one of the oddest films ever made" when including it as one of his "Great Movies".
Review by James Carneiro | Dec 22, 2024
A 1993 British black comedy drama film starring David Thewlis as Johnny, a loquacious intellectual, philosopher and conspiracy theorist. The film won several awards, including best director and best actor at Cannes. Naked marked a new career high for Mike Leigh as a director and made the then-unknown Thewlis an internationally recognized star. For his astonishing performance, David Thewlis won Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival.
Review by James Carneiro | Dec 07, 2024
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. It premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d'Or. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2024 by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.