"Waves" Goes the Wrong Direction in Racial Depiction, Despite Its Intent and Beauty
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Two sisters take a vow of silence as they retreat to a remote family cabin to detox the eldest's boyfriend.
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Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.
This is not a film, it’s a drop tower. A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime.
The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.