Boy Erased (2018)
Boy Erased avoids the bombast and dramatisation that might be expected from its subject matter, instead opting for modest authenticity.
Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird’s story is so familiar, so authentic that it has something that’ll resonate with everyone. We’ve all clashed with our parents; we’ve all had romantic misadventures best forgotten; we’ve all felt stifled by our home town.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
McDonagh’s radical sympathy creates his film’s best scenes, while undercutting any kind of coherent thesis.
Boys Don’t Cry: The Masculine Melodrama Of ‘Manchester By The Sea’
Manchester by the Sea’s protagonist represents the distillation of uncommunicative masculinity as well as its deleterious effects.
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