What 'Magnolia' Says About Childhood Trauma
Magnolia focuses on how one’s childhood and trauma relate to their confidence and self.

A spiritualist medium agrees to help a grieving widower figure out why his daughter has developed a daylight phobia.
Magnolia focuses on how one’s childhood and trauma relate to their confidence and self.
Tran Quoc Bao succeeds in telling us a story about martial arts, human decay, and friendship. The originality shown by his filmmaking is admirable and brings fresh air to the classic Chinese martial arts genre.
In a film where a Black couple is framed to be the lead characters, they still managed to get shuffled off to the sidelines. The enthusiastic cast delivers well on goofy bits- but can only go so far before they begin to fall flat.
"13 Going on 30" tracks the tricky transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Few movies deal with aging (particularly aging women) with as much compassion as Relic does. Yet it’s not sickly sweet and not a soapbox rant against ageism. Relic simply is, allowing the horror to seep in quietly and carefully.
The makings of a great midseason filler episode that would connect in many different directions. This is a police drama filler with a guest director.