
A story about a gullible turtle and a sneaky scorpion.
Amsterdam is a confusing movie with a meandering plot amidst a beautiful rendering of 1930s New York
Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.
A trouble-making teenager spends the summer working at a Southern California beach learning about responsibility.
The biggest highlight of the film is easily the performance of Andrew Garfield. In his days since hanging up his Spiderman suit, Garfield has routinely churned out great performances, and Mainstream is no exception. He proves that he is willing to try anything and go anywhere in a character.
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.