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Sep 21, 2018 · Film Review: ‘That Time of Year’. Paprika Steen stars in and directs this busy yet pat dysfunctional-family seriocomedy penned by leading Danish playwright Jakob Weis. “That Time of Year ...
- Dennis Harvey
That Time of Year: Directed by Paprika Steen. With Paprika Steen, Jacob Lohmann, Mikas Maximus Dalhoff Christiansen, Fanny Leander Bornedal. Deep-rooted grievances can rip families apart--and the ties that bind them together.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Paprika Steen
- 2018-11-08
Oct 13, 2018 · Dir. Paprika Steen. Denmark. 2018. 101 mins. One of Paprika Steen’s breakout roles as an actress was in Festen, Dogme’s definitive word on family dysfunction.Twenty years later, her third film ...
- 15 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'
- 14 'The King'
- 13 'The Swimmers'
- 12 'Tick, Tick... Boom!'
- 11 'Nimona'
- 10 'The Two Popes'
- 9 'The Mitchells vs. The Machines'
- 8 'Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio'
- 7 'Beasts of No Nation'
- 6 'Roma'
IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
A unique entry from the Coen brothers, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Western anthology film comprising six separate stories. Each storyline takes place in the Old West, and ranges from deliciously dark comedic narratives to surprisingly poignant drama. The centerpiece is of course the one featuring the titular character, Buster Scruggs (Tim Blake Nelson), who is a cheerful singing cowboy clad in white and exceptional at shooting. As expected from the renowned directors, the movie has a re...
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
David Michôd’s The King is a gripping Netflix original historical drama based on numerous plays from William Shakespeare's Henriad. Set in medieval England, the film follows young King Henry V (played by Timothée Chalamet) as he deals with the complex challenges of leadership, including political intrigue and warfare, after unexpectedly ascending to the throne following the death of his brother. While Chalamet's portrayal of King Henry V is unsurprisingly impressive, it’s overshadowed by the...
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
The Swimmers is a heart-wrenching yet captivating biographical sports drama film that chronicles the unbelievable true story of two Syrian sisters (masterfully depicted by the real-life sisters Nathalie Issa and Manal Issa), who go on a grueling journey across the Aegean Sea to help a boat of refugees. Soon, they begin a new path toward the Olympic Games, with the duo eventually joining the Refugee Olympic Team and becoming synonymous with it. Showing viewers the incredible bravery of teenage...
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
An uplifting musical masterpiece directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick, Tick... Boom! (also stylized as tick, tick... BOOM!) is a poignant depiction of the story of a struggling artist. It follows Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield) a gifted composer who questions his choices as he approaches his 30th birthday, as his busy and unfruitful career is inextricably linked with his strained relationships and anxieties. Tick, Tick... Boom! soon delves into what it means to embrace passion at all costs,...
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
A recent hit that proves Netflix’s animated films may be the platform’s greatest strength, Nimona combines sci-fi, fantasy, and adventure to tell the tale of the titular character (voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz). It follows her story as she teams up with a former knight, who has been framed for a crime. An obvious issue they face is that the knight initially swore to kill the shape-shifting teen, but throughout their adventure, he realizes that her kind may not be all that bad after all. A del...
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
The Two Popes dramatizes a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI (played by Anthony Hopkins) and Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (played by Jonathan Pryce), more well-known now as Pope Francis. After the leak of documents revealing corruption by the Church, Pope Benedict summons Bergoglio to the Vatican to convince him not to resign in protest. The film is a two-hander (a play or film featuring only or primarily two main characters) revolving around the conversations between Benedict and Bergoglio. They...
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
A fun and wacky animated movie, The Mitchells vs. the Machines is centered on the titular dysfunctional family, who are initially on a normal road trip as they take their daughter Katie (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) to college. They find the entire ordeal awkward and have a challenging time bonding, and things get worse when the robot uprising interrupts their already complicated journey. Soon, only they can save the world from the evil AI known as PAL (voiced by Olivia Colman). With its distinct...
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is the titular director's remarkably dark take on the classic fairytale. The dark fantasy film revolves around the story fans know and love, with the wooden boy Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) discovering what it means to be human with the help of his father Geppetto (David Bradley) and conscience Cricket (Ewan McGregor). In the process, he gets into some trouble that lands him in dangerous waters. In Guillermo del Toro's version, there's a heavier focus on heavy theme...
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Set against the backdrop of a violent civil war, Beasts of No Nation follows the life of child soldier Agu (Abraham Attah) in a fictional African country. Agu is under the tutelage of The Commandant (Idris Elba), a brutal warlord who seeks to use lost and hopeless children to secure his power. As he builds his group of guerrilla soldiers, more and more innocent lives are changed forever. Beasts is the third film by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who most recently directed the James Bond film No Time To...
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
An award-winning Netflix original movie, Roma stars Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, a housekeeper for an upper-class family in 1970s Mexico City. The family is made up of the troubled couple, Antonio (Fernando Grediaga) and Sofía (Marina de Tavira), as well as their four children. After an affair, Cleo gets pregnant, which threatens to upend her life. This is complicated further when Antonio runs away with his mistress, and Sofía invites Cleo to go on vacation with her and the kids. Roma is about c...
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) Based on the 1929 literary novel — which was later adapted into an Oscar-winning movie in 1930, a made-for-TV movie in 1979, and finally, a film released theatrically and on Netflix in 2022 — this German language World War I movie remains one of the starkest examples of anti-war sentiment in cinematic history.
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) The Coen Brothers got tired of limiting themselves to one narrative in their projects, so for their Netflix film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, they decided to mix it up and tell multiple stories.
- Beasts of No Nation (2015) Another war film, the powerful drama Beasts of No Nation follows a brutal civil dispute in Africa as told through the eyes of a child soldier.
- Da 5 Bloods (2020) Wars and wounds collide in Spike Lee's 2020 film Da 5 Bloods, a meditation on race, generational trauma, and American intervention. Toggling between the past and present, the film follows four Black war veterans as they return to Vietnam, intent on recovering a locker of gold bars and the body of their fallen friend and squad leader, Stormin' Norman (Chadwick Boseman), both of which were lost during a napalm strike.
That Time of Year. NEW. A family's reunion over the holidays brings old arguments and long-held resentments to the surface. Paprika Steen.
- Holiday, Drama, Comedy
3 days ago · Nothing says Halloweekend like Halloween, so ring in the scariest week of the year with a spin of David Gordon Green’s 2018 slasher, the 11th entry in the iconic horror franchise (and direct sequel to the 1978 original). Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her classic scream-queen role as Laurie Strode, who faces off with the masked killer Michael Myers 40 years after his original killing spree.
