The man simply does not miss, and once again has delivered another classic, valedictory work. There’s a specific urgency to his work now as his time draws near - this is a richly detailed epic that like most of American history is really a story about systemic racism, crime and capitalism. Loaded with great performances and ghoulish white people who look like they stepped out of a time machine, a cavalcade of ugliness. All hail Thelma Schoonmaker who has made…

This feels like the movie he's been trying to make for his whole career and in fact this movie reminds me of the way his career started, pulling out all the stops and displaying his influences, making a splash as if he may not get another chance. But he's a more refined and older filmmaker now and the influences are more interesting, in particular the work of Hal Ashby, and this film shares that somewhat shaggy structure of his, the…

Todd Haynes? More like GOD HAYNES.

Criminally overlooked on release in 2019, I’m sad it took me this long to get around to seeing it. A first-rate legal / corporate drama that masterfully compresses a complex 20 year story into 2 hours. Like The Insider, this is a movie about corporate criminality that names names. It makes understandable the connection between unregulated corporate behaviour and environmental destruction. The cast is perfectly selected, especially Tim Robbins (who fooled me for 10…