“Magnolia” is many, many (many) things, but first and foremost it’s a movie about people who are fighting to live above their pain — a theme that not only runs through all nine parts of this story, but also bleeds through Paul Thomas Anderson’s career. There’s John C. Reilly as Officer Jim Kurring, who’s properly cast himself as the hero and narrator of the non-existent cop show in order to give voice into the things he can’t confess. There’s Jimmy Gator, the dying game show host who’s haunted by all the ways he’s failed his daughter (he’s played from the late Philip Baker Hall in among the most affectingly human performances you’ll ever see).
The legacy of “Jurassic Park” has brought about a three-decade long franchise that a short while ago hit rock-bottom with this summer’s “Jurassic World: Dominion,” although not even that is enough to diminish its greatness, or distract from its nightmare-inducing power. To get a wailing kindergartener like myself, the film was so realistic that it poised the tear-filled concern: What if that T-Rex came to life in addition to a real feeding frenzy ensued?
Yang’s typically fixed but unfussy gaze watches the events unfold across the backdrop of nineteen fifties and early-‘60s Taipei, a time of encroaching democratic reform when Taiwan still remained under martial legislation as well as shadow of Chinese Communism looms over all. The currents of Si’r’s soul — sullied by gang life but also stirred by a romance with Ming, the girlfriend of one of its dead leaders — feel national in scale.
In 1992, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a textbook that included more than a sentence about the Nation of Islam leader. He’d been erased. Relegated for the dangerous poisoned capsule antithesis of Martin Luther King Jr. In reality, Lee’s 201-moment, warts-and-all cinematic adaptation of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is still groundbreaking for shining a light on him. It casts Malcolm not just as flawed and tragic, but as heroic also. Denzel Washington’s interpretation of Malcolm is meticulous, sincere, and enrapturing in a film whose every second is packed with drama and pizazz (those sensorial thrills epitomized by an early dance sequence in which each composition is choreographed with eloquent grace).
A sweeping adventure about a 14th century ironmonger, the animal gods who live while in the forest she clearcuts to mine for ore, and also the doomed warrior prince who risks what’s left of his life to stop the war between them, Miyazaki’s painstakingly lush mid-career masterpiece has long been seen for a cautionary tale about humanity’s disregard for nature, but its true power is rooted less in protest than in acceptance.
“Rumble inside the Bronx” may be set in New York (although hilariously shot in Vancouver), but this Golden Harvest production is Hong Kong on the bone, along with the 10 years’s single giddiest display of why Jackie Chan deserves his frequent comparisons to Buster Keaton. While the story is whatever — Chan plays a Hong Kong roxie sinner cop who comes to the massive Apple for his uncle’s wedding and soon finds himself embroiled in some mob drama about stolen diamonds — the charisma is from the charts, the jokes hook up with the huge boobs power of spinning windmill kicks, as well as Looney Tunes-like action sequences are more amazing than just about anything that experienced ever been shot on these shores.
Scorsese’s filmmaking has never been more operatic and powerful mainly because it grapples with the paradoxes of dreadful Adult males as well as the profound desires that compel them to complete awful things. Needless to say, De Niro is terrifically cruel as Jimmy “The Gent” Conway and Pesci does his best work, but Liotta — who just died this year — is so spot-on that it’s hard never to think about what might’ve been experienced Scorsese/Liotta Crime Movie become a thing, way too. RIP. —EK
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