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alexander miller / criterion predictions

January 29, 2020

Criterion Prediction #227: Sorry We Missed You, by Alexander Miller

Title: Sorry We Missed You Year: 2019 Director: Ken Loach Cast: Kris Hitchens, Debbie Honeywood, Ross Brewster, Rhys Stone Synopsis: Ricky, a downtrodden delivery driver, makes a motivated decision to resolve his debt and provide for his family by working...

2019 / cannes / cannes 2019 / luiz oliveira / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 20, 2019

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 20, 2019

Criterion Prediction #183: The Wind That Shakes the Barley, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Wind that Shakes the Barley Year: 2006 Director: Ken Loach Cast: Cillian Murphy, Orla Fitzgerald, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney Synopsis: After enduring far too many atrocities from English occupation, young doctor Damien O’Donovan (Murphy) joins the...

david bax / monday movie / movies

March 18, 2019

Monday Movie: Kes, by David Bax

Angry art wielded in service of a specific sociopolitical agenda is rarely subtle (even when it’s good; see Sorry to Bother You or listen to Billy Bragg for proof). The same generally goes for movies about child/animal attachments (those can...

Tagged: ken loach

Criterion Prediction #227: Sorry We Missed You, by Alexander Miller

Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You, by Luiz Oliveira

Criterion Prediction #183: The Wind That Shakes the Barley, by Alexander Miller

Monday Movie: Kes, by David Bax

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