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The Best Films of 2024
from the series Movie Corner... By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II I’m Still Here (Portuguese with English subtitles), Directed by Walter Salles Nickel Boys, Directed by RaMell Ross A Complete Unknown, Directed by James Mangold Small Things Like These, Directed by Tim Mielants The Substance, Directed by Coralie Fargeat Sing Sing, Directed by Greg Kwedar* Conclave, Directed by Edward Berger Sugarcane, Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie* The Brutalist, Directed by Brady Corbet A Real Pain, Directed by Jesse Eisenberg Other films to consider:The Apprentice, The Order, Nosferatu, Between the Temples, Power, Lost in a Mountain of Maine, Limbo, Bonjour Switzerland, The Wild Robot, Wicked, Queer, Civil War. *Films from the Minneapolis- Saint Paul International Film Festival, 2024.
A Complete Unknown
from the series Movie Corner... 4.5/5 STARS DRAMA SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II To emulate a famous (or infamous) person on screen or stage is no easy task. When it works it’s a beautiful thing and if it doesn’t work, it’s a waste of time. Many a thespian has done a biopic: Martin Luther King, Julius Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Adolf Hitler, Queen Elizabeth I and II, and Pope John Paul II, among many others, have been portrayed. Timothee Chalamet takes on the huge task playing a young Bob Dylan (1961-1965). It is a marvel in itself capturing the man before anybody knew who he was and when he first made national headlines. For the effort, Chalamet spent months learning and performing up to 40 of Dylan’s folk songs. This alone is amazing to say the least. I’m appreciative of the actor playing Mr. Dylan, formerly known as Robert Zimmerman. Dylan hailed from Hibbing, Minnesota, and was a complete unknown [...]
A Real Pain (2024)
from the series Movie Corner... Drama/ComedySearchlight Pictures By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter II Searchlight Pictures Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale , The Social Network ) is director, actor, and writer of A Real Pain. Mr. Eisenberg and his costar Kieran Culkin (The Cider House Rules , No Sudden Move ) makes A Real Pain very captivating. The two men play first cousins. David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) meet in Warsaw, Poland’s airport to visit the Holocaust sites with an experienced tour guide, along with a handful of others of Jewish descent. The two men were close growing up, but over time became further apart. David is married with one small daughter living in a townhouse in a city in the U.S. while Benji is a drifter who hasn’t figured out a clear path for his future.Even though A Real Pain can be treated as a film that can easily fall into a category with a similar (if not an identical) theme, it successfully [...]
