“Tony” is Yet Another Good Biopic
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.

"Romeo and Juliet"—ballet by Sergei Prokofiev in 3 acts, 9 paintings with prologue and epilogue. Libretto by Leonid Lavrovsky, Adrian Piotrovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Sergei Radlov based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.
A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.
The one-way journey went to the desert that refused to offer an answer or a transcendence.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
'Living' dives into many themes that we can all understand regardless of our cultural backgrounds. We can see this through the shared similarities between 'Ikiru' and 'Living'.