At an album cover shoot, a music journalist becomes quietly fixated on the woman behind the camera-unaware she's the same woman who rejected her at a wedding a year earlier.
In the film adaptation, director Jon M. Chu turns each musical number into a massive show stopper, with grand set pieces and a wealth of diverse dancers. Yet, in this attempt to show reverence for the people of the Washington Heights barrio, Chu, or maybe more specifically those in charge of casting, left out a crucial part of the community, Afro-Latinos.
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.
Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.
This horror, action, and fantasy movie released on Disney+ has a symbolic aspect.
