Movie Explanations

Nickel Boys Explained For Cinephiles | The Alligator In The Room

Nickel Boys is a tragic story that’s ultimately about perseverance and inspiration. If you want to understand the movie on a deeper level, you’ve...

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To understand A Ghost Story, let’s start by comparing the first scene to the last scene. Beginning: M tells C about the notes she would...

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If you want a quick explanation of A Complete Unknown, here it is. A Complete Unknown has two levels. The first is Bob Dylan’s...

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If you just want a quick explanation of Nosferatu, here it is. Nosferatu is about liberation from the burdens and judgments of society, especially...

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If you just want a quick explanation of Babygirl, here it is. Babygirl is a mid-life coming-of-age movie. At the beginning, Romy’s sense of...

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This may be a controversial opinion, but I think Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is actually a simple movie. Yes, it’s 215 minutes. Yes, it...

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How beleaguering life can be - how we can feel we’re a nuisance, that we’re taking up other people’s space - how we fear...

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Everyone wants to know what happens in Primer. I’ll tell you. But let’s start with a quote from Shane Carruth himself. The Village Voice...

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Here we are, almost 50 years after the release of All the President’s Men, and America’s political climate feels like it’s on the brink...

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As easy as it might be to overlook Wicked as catnip for theater kids and Ariana Grande fans, to see nothing more than the...

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