her: Living In a Box
Anyone who’s ever tried to meet someone online, especially if that someone doesn’t live close to you, recognizes the feeling. It’s as if the conversations and flirting isn’t entirely real; you’re...
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Shortly after World War II, alcoholic veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) joins a “family” dominated by a colorful philosopher (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who has plans for a wider movement....
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In 1970, hippie private eye “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) looks into several events that are connected to the disappearance of a wealthy real estate developer in California… The first screen...
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After overhearing a conversation about a certain judge in a diner, alcoholic New England philosophy professor Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix) decides that killing him is the moral thing to do. Woody Allen...
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In 1921, Polish immigrant Ewa Cybulska (Marion Cotillard) is separated from her sister and taken in by a man (Joaquin Phoenix) who prostitutes her… but also falls in love. Director James Gray has made...
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SOMETIMES WE LEAVE EVERYTHING TO FIND OURSELVES. After another botched suicide attempt, Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix) meets two women – one (Vinessa Shaw) his parents are setting him up with, and...
View ArticleParenthood
IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU. One of the director’s most beloved films is a drama-comedy that feels genuine and relevant precisely because it was conceived by him and the writing duo who all poured their...
View ArticleYou Were Never Really Here
BRING THE HAMMER. Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is hired by a state senator to rescue his daughter who’s been kidnapped and held prisoner in a New York brothel… Another engrossing thriller-drama from the We...
View ArticleJoker: Birth of a Clown Prince
PUT ON A HAPPY FACE. As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the intensely dark and violent...
View ArticleC’mon C’mon
A radio journalist’s (Joaquin Phoenix) life is upended when he reconnects with his sister (Gaby Hoffmann); she has to look after her estranged husband and he offers to stay with her nine-year-old kid...
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