Tag: Darren Aronofsky

What I Like About: mother! and Close-Ups

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date March 21, 2019
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mother! is the, at the time of this writing, latest release by film maestro Darren Aronofsky of “Are you uncomfortable yet? What if I go up real close to you and start breathing heavily?” fame.

Tags Close-ups, Control, Darren Aronofsky, Domestic Abuse, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Mother, Personal Space, What I Like About

Lists

2017: Best of, 10-1

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date January 5, 2018
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Click here for my 2017 Watchlist and Guilty Pleasures, here for my Worst List 24-11, here for my Best List 23-11 and here for my Worst List 10-1.

Let’s finish this off with the best films I saw released in Ireland in 2017.

Tags 2017, 2017 in Movies, Ana de Armas, Andrey Zvygintsev, Animated Movies, Arnie Hammer, Barry Keogh, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best of 2017, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Bright, Bright sucks, Call Me by Your Name, Chiron, Chiron Harris, claustrophobia, Colin Farrel, Darren Aronofsky, Deckard, Denis Villeneuve, Frances McDormand, Harrison Ford, I Am Not Your Negro, It Comes at Night, James Baldwin, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Loveless, Luca Guadagnino, Mahershala Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Martin McDonagh, Medgar Evers, Moonlight, Mother, Naomie Harris, Nicole Kidman, Open heart surgery, Raoul Peck, Robin Wright, Roger Deakens, Ryan Gosling, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Silent Films, Studio Ghibli, Sufjan Stevens, Sylvia Hoeks, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster, The Red Turtle, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Timothée Chalamet, Top 10, Trey Edward Shuls, Woody Harrelson, Yorgos Lanthimos

Quick Critique

Quick Critique: mother!

Post author By You Call Yourself a Film Critic
Post date September 26, 2017
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A housewife (Jennifer Lawrence) works hard to get a rundown house back in order while her beloved husband (Javier Bardem) suffers from writer’s block.

Tags Black Swan, Brian Gleeson, Darren Aronofsky, Domhnall Gleeson, Ed Harris, Horror, Horror films, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Pfieffer, Mother, Noah, Pi, Religious metaphor, Requiem for a Dream, Surrealist horror, The Fountain, The Wrestler

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