“25th Hour is one of Spike Lee's most moving films. It's thematically complex and still holds up 23 years later.”
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“It might be the least Spike Lee Spike Lee film, but he and cinematographer Matthew Libatique make sure that it is still very much a Spike Lee film at least in tone and feel.”
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“…Lee wants us considering the ripple effects that these cold-blooded killings have on a hyper-proud, hyper-macho and fiercely tight-knit community…”
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“Bamboozled doesn’t work today because its satire was strictly true in 2000. It works because it’s still true today.”
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“The details are so particular and unique, ‘Crooklyn’ becomes immediately and infectiously transportive; it’s a step back in time in film-form.”
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“Both a point A and a point B exist in Dead Man […] but Jarmusch’s filmmaking is not concerned with hooking us on the straight line between the two.”
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Let’s take a look at what the ForReel team thinks will happen come Oscar night!
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“… while the first half of the film is all about building, what the film's second half…made clear to me is that The Brutalist may be devoted to showing us construction, but it's about the counterfactual: The Brutalist is a story of desecration, in fear and in reality.”
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Here are 7 films streaming virtually that you should make time to see.
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As an autumn treat, here are ten underseen Spooky Season movies for you to check out this month.
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“Francis Ford Coppola is one of the great auteurs of cinema, but sometimes with auteur theory we lose sight of how much of a collaborative process filmmaking is.”
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