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Jul 26, 2022 · Demonstrating Dumont’s deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of bodies and sexuality, L’humanité is at once an idiosyncratic police procedural and a provocative exploration of the tension between humankind’s capacity for compassion and our base, sometimes barbarous animal instincts. Written & Directed by Bruno Dumont.
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A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six year old daughter. Prison will be their home. Based on the 2013 Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013). Director: Mehmet Ada Öztekin | Stars: Aras Bulut Iynemli, Nisa Sofiya Aksongur, Deniz Baysal, Celile Toyon Uysal. Votes: 53,268
Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Julie Vollono. Votes: 142,679 | Gross: $21.02M.
- The Resilience Award: Call Me by Your Name
- The Purpose Award: Coco
- The Socially Intelligent Power Award: The Darkest Hour
- The Empathy Award: The Florida Project
- The Forgiveness Award: Lady Bird
- The Growth Mindset Award: The Last Jedi
- The Nonviolent Heroism Award: The Shape of Water
- The Common Humanity Award: Wonder
- The Community and Diversity Award: Wonder Woman and Black Panther
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When 17-year-old Elio Perlman first meets doctoral student Oliver, they don’t seem to like each other very much—and when they part, it’s in pain. Call Me by Your Nameis about what happens in between those two events, as Elio and Oliver fall in love amid the crumbling, sun-drenched beauty of Lombardy, Italy. Along the way, we learn a great deal abou...
By now, it’s well-recognized that, broadly speaking, Pixar Animation Studios produces two kinds of films: the one that sells a lot of toys (like the Cars and Monsters franchises) and the kind that use animation and storytelling to resonate with grown-ups. The 2017 film Coco falls into the grown-up camp: The young, talented guitar hero travels betwe...
At the beginning of The Darkest Hour—and there’s really no nice way to say this—Prime Minister Winston Churchill is an entitled, ruling-class jerk. He’s nasty to people with less power than him, detached from their suffering, and unable to persuade others because he cannot put himself in their shoes. As he shouts to an underling: “Will you stop int...
In the gritty, documentary-like Florida Project, precocious six-year-old children run through fields and abandoned buildings around a motel-slum where they live, called “The Magic Castle.” Director Sean Baker juxtaposes their irrepressible energy and joy with scenes of poverty and chaos, all within a mile of Disney World. Through this vivid, haunti...
How can a movie that focuses on the conflicts between a mother and her teenage daughter fill us with inspiration? Lady Birddoes it. In the film, the protagonist Lady Bird—a name she gives herself—discovers her own identity and goals by taking creative risks, testing friendships, and exploring her budding sexuality. Conflict arises when her distraug...
The latest episode in the ongoing Star Wars saga is all about failure. The most interesting thing you can say about failure in The Last Jediis we don’t see a lot of nice, safe blunders, where everyone learns a valuable lesson afterward. No, these are bloody, emotionally devastating failures, of a kind that many people cannot live with. Poe Dameron’...
In an ordinary American movie, Colonel Richard Strickland would be the hero. He’s the hard-charging chief of security at a top-secret government facility at the height of the Cold War. Unfortunately, he is tragically deformed by a system that does not value life, human and otherwise. Instead of Strickland, the hero of The Shape of Wateris a mute cl...
Auggie Pullman was born with a craniofacial condition. In Wonder, we see him make the transition from a sweetly protected, home-schooled, medical-procedure-laden life to the unpredictable and socially intense environment of a very well-intentioned private middle school—and ultimately inspire the whole place for the better. In the beginning, Auggie’...
Though one movie comes from the Marvel Universe and the other from DC, Black Panther and Wonder Womanhave one big thing in common: They are both about the relationship of homogenous, isolated utopian communities to the wider, more complicated world. The superpowered Wonder Woman comes from Themyscira, home to an immortal race of Amazons who appear ...
A list of movies from 2017 that illustrate keys to human well-being, such as resilience, purpose, and empathy. Each film is reviewed and analyzed by the Greater Good staff, who highlight its themes and messages for personal and social growth.
Jul 23, 2022 · The Bravery Award: Being the Ricardos. “I’m not funny,” Lucille Ball once said. “What I am is brave.”. You get the tiniest peek at how brave she could be in Being the Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin’s very soft look at a very bad week in 1953 for Ball (a tart Nicole Kidman) and her husband, Desi Arnaz (an affable Javier Bardem).
Director Alejandro Amenábar Stars Rachel Weisz Max Minghella Oscar Isaac. Beautiful story about extraordinary and meek woman, which only religion was the wisdom, the only principle was to be faithful to own opinions, her goal was to find the truth and help plagued people of her age. 8. An Education.
Feb 5, 2020 · For example, Joker is about the descent into homicidal madness. Jojo Rabbit is about one of the worst events in human history, the Nazi Holocaust. 1917 is about another catastrophe, World War One. In each of those films, however, we can still find elements of humanity’s best qualities: heroism, growth, fortitude, and more.
