Hi, I’m Chris Shelton and this is The Critical Picture, movie reviews you can count on. Today we’re looking at La La Land, the musical romantic comedy/drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.Read More »La La Land movie review
Hi, I’m Chris Shelton and this is The Critical Picture, movie reviews you can count on. Today we’re looking at Manchester by the Sea, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges.Read More »Manchester by the Sea movie review
Jackie is directed by Pablo Larrain and stars Natalie Portman, Billy Crudup, Peter Skarsgaard and John Hurt.Read More »Jackie movie review
Moonlight was directed by Barry Jenkins from his screenplay based on a story by Tarell Alvin McCraney and stars Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monae, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomi Harris and Mahershala Ali.Read More »Moonlight movie review
Get Out is written and directed by Jordan Peele (of Key and Peele fame) and stars Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener and Lil Rel Hewery.
This movie is a very interesting mix of horror, satire and social commentary. The commercials do spoil some of what goes on, but I’m not going to spoil the rest in this review. There’s some good reasons to see this movie and I’ll try to break them down here without giving away too much.Read More »Get Out movie review
Lion is directed by Garth Davis and stars Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Roony Mara, David Wenham and introduces Indian child actor Sunny Pawar.
This movie is based on the frankly amazing true story of a five-year old who in 1986 was separated from his birth mother and family through circumstances that are tragic and all-too-real in the unfortunate circumstances of India’s day-to-day existence. This boy, Saroo, ends up on a train, being unwittingly and unwillingly taken over a thousand miles from a home town that he doesn’t even know the proper name of. He ends up in Calcutta, a stranger in a strange land who can’t even speak Bengali, the local language, because where he comes from they speak Hindi. India is a country with 22 official languages and over a thousand are spoken in various regions. He wanders around the city, almost being abducted many times before he ends up in a children’s home and is adopted by a Tazmanian couple. It’s a Dickens-like success story for him in many ways, yet when he grows to a young 20-something and it’s time for him to move away from home, the unresolved reality of his young life won’t leave him alone. He begins a search using the then-new Google Maps to find where he came from. This search soon consumes his entire existence, drives him away from his friends and family and eventually leads him back to India and his childhood home.Read More »Lion movie review