It was always gonna be hard after PAN’S LABYRINTH. Guillermo de Toro made his major market entrance with such rich visual language and a fabulist storyteller’s gift for imbuing the fairy tale with the mundane grit of human history. Since then some things have worked (THE SHAPE OF WATER) while others felt like that visual…
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Caroline, no.
One of the most emotionally grueling moments in a life of watching movies occurs at the end of Bruce Robinson’s brilliant comedy, WITHNAIL AND I. Marboe (I, played by Paul McGann) realizes Withnail, for all his passion and wit, is only going to drink himself to death sooner or later. Marboe cuts his hair (…
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