Led by two quite effective leads in Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach’s film about the perils of marriage and the pain of divorce has moments to savour.
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Marriage Story (2019)
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Pianist, The (2002)
One of Polanski’s finest films, and a great WWII Holocaust drama about human resilience, and the beauty and power of music to overcome sheer adversity.
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Chinatown (1974)
Polanski’s greatest accomplishment, and one of the finest American films ever made from the ’70s.
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My Magic (2008)
While We’re Young (2014)
A drama-comedy that tells us painful truths about growing up (and old) through the kind of offbeat comedy that writer-director Noah Baumbach is synonymous with.
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Greenberg (2010)
A passive character study disguised as a romantic-comedy that feels too laidback for it to work convincingly.
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Irishman, The (2019)
Scorsese delivers another career-high mob film that is quite unlike what he has done before in what could be a strong Best Picture contender.
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
Has no real narrative impetus and mistakes a laidback filmmaking style for meaning-making, this modern ‘Ganja and Hess’ remake by Spike Lee is a turn-off.
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Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
More psychological drama than pure horror, Polanski’s classic will haunt viewers willing to be immersed in its reality.
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Repulsion (1965)
A Polanski masterclass in psychosexual filmmaking, still effectively chilling and disturbing today as it was—surely a shocker!—back in the mid-‘60s.
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