Darren Aronofsky is probably one of the most interesting, unconventional, modern American filmmakers working in the present time. Known for his surrealist, often disturbing, melodramatic plots, usually in the genre of drama…
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From the Academy Award-winning writer-director of A Separation & The Salesman, Everybody Knows brings Asghar Farhadi’s streak of five consecutive masterpieces to a sudden halt, and is an unexpectedly underwhelming feature from…
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 Here is a list of 30 Must See Films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018, we are most excited about: “I Do Not Care If We…
Aronofsky has toyed around the concepts of religion for a long span of his career. He took an audacious swing at the ideas of The Tree being a source of eternal life…
If Noah was a misstep, mother! is pretty concrete proof that Aronofsky is back on firm footing and definitely seems to be equipped with a provocative edge to his dark sense of theatrical storytelling. He pushes, prods, provokes and stupefies. Aided by a hypnotic performance by Jennifer Lawrence, he does something a lot of filmmakers today forget to do: he makes watching a film a personal experience for each individual viewer.
No Country for Old Men is the Coens working at their most minimalistic, their most stylistically restrained, and arguably their most intensely atmospheric – and surprisingly, it turned out to be one of their most memorable hits.