"The Veteran" Hits Home
A socially conscious film that draws attention to the plight of American military veterans.

騰遠相隔了二十年,帶著懷有五個月的妻子回到台灣尋親。 眷村與夜市是他最深刻的記憶圖騰, 但滄海桑田、人事全非, 騰遠只憑著當初小學二年級匆匆離開時, 書包裡的一篇還沒有交出去的作文「我的爸爸」的內容開始按圖索驥, 尋找八歲以前他生命中的回憶…… 到底,騰遠是否能順利找回他失聯已久的父親與哥哥呢?
A socially conscious film that draws attention to the plight of American military veterans.
In all actuality, “Just Mercy” should be labeled a “wall punching narrative.” Constantly, the flick throws high forms of adversity our way, amping up our most inner levels of discomfort. Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton wonderfully paces the film in such a way that replicates the slow-burn nature of justice.
After the 2018 surprising hit "A Quiet Place" brought something fresh to the horror genre, the announcement of a sequel may have been disappointing to some. A lot of the time, a sequel to an already successful movie is no where near as good as the original. Yet, John Krasinski once again shows that he's much more than Jim from The Office.
Moonlight is a film that will certainly be remembered for how it won Best Picture, but the movie itself should be known for its excellent representation of one of the most underrepresented groups in film: Black, gay men.
Netflix's Afterlife of the Party might fall into the rom-com genre, but it's much more about grief, strong female friendships, and platonic love than it is about romance.
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.