Welcome to the W Movie Club, a new series in which W magazine's editors pick five iconic films to watch while in quarantine. This week, senior news editor Kyle Munzenrieder shares some of his favorites. They're mostly high-wire productions, only barely held together by the convictions of their creators.Two hot takes: 1) The real tragedy of Joaquin Phoenix winning the Oscar foris that he should have won it for this film instead .
Phoenix stars as a veteran struggling with PTSD who has taken a job as a hitman with a strict moral code: he only goes after sex offenders. His latest assignment tasks him with recovering the trafficked daughter of a powerful New York State Senator, but uncovers a web of corruption that goes far deeper than he suspects. Director Lynne Ramsay masterfully manages to fit so much texture into a disciplined 95 minutes, and never goes full Grimdark despite the subject matter.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say the scene where she has a Sonic Youth-soundtracked freakout while confined to her rather small hotel room and decides she needs to break out hasn’t been playing on a loop in my mind while in lockdown.for riffs on similar themes, or with Cheung and Assayas’s second collaborationMiami is a city easily and often stereotyped by popular culture. It is also one I was born not too far from , and called home for twelve years.
Co-author Tarell Alvin McCraney and director Barry Jenkins had long been tipped as promising favored sons by the Miami cultural cognoscenti . McCraney was already a star in the theater world beyond the city’s bounds, and Jenkins was a promising director. His
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