joaquin phoenix

An epic odyssey of a man’s inner panic attacks.

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Mike Mills’ ‘C’mon C’mon’ is one of the most intimate, charming movies of the year thanks to top notch performances and gorgeous cinematography.

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Joaquin Phoenix’s brilliant turn in Joker feels like a bait and switch as mental illness takes the stage over Batman canon.

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Garth Davis’ ‘Mary Magdalene’ is historically accurate and respectful, but great performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Tahar Rahim can’t save it from being boring.

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Gus Van Sant’s unflinching portrait of a sometimes deeply unpleasant person is almost as brave as its subject, side-stepping more obvious and tired tropes of the genre so as to uncover new truths about a few very old topics.

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Larry “Doc” Sportello is surprised when his former girlfriend shows up on his doorstep and explains and a plot involving her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. The plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thomas Pynchon.

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As Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) leaves his spotless, lonely high-rise Los Angeles apartment for work, he is surrounded by thousands of people doing the same thing—every one of them zoned into their own little bubble, talking to someone (or something) on devices that are networked into their home computers.

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Last year was a great one for movies with big themes and stunning cinematography. No two movies from 2012 encapsulate both of these traits better than Life of Pi and The Master, and both are now out to own on Blu-ray.

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Unexpected: Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, Quentin Tarantino, and Kathryn Bigelow snubbed in Director in favor of Benh Zeitlin and Michael Haneke.

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‘The Master,’ confirms an assertion Trey made when he left the theater after viewing ‘There Will Be Blood,’ that the 2007 masterpiece was a turning point for P.T. Anderson.

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It’s quiet, muted at times, as Anderson says with a single shot what lesser directors spend entire scenes on creating, and it ends on a vague whimper.

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The video review is one thing, but what I wrote after that is way more detailed…leave your comments below after you see this bold, challenging film!

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