Ryan Gosling was a Mickey Mouse Club performer as a child and broke through in The Believer and Half Nelson, the latter bringing a Best Actor nomination for playing a teacher with a crack addiction.
Drive established the persona that stuck: a man who barely speaks, whose violence arrives without escalation, and the film is largely built on his silence.
La La Land required a year of piano training, and Barbie revealed a comic capacity that surprised almost everyone, earning him a supporting nomination for playing Ken as an existential crisis.
Ana de ArmasThe Gray Man (2022) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Netflix spent around two hundred million dollars on an action film with two of the largest stars available, and produced something nobody can describe afterward. The Prague…
Gena RowlandsThe Notebook (2004) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The young romance is a competent, conventional and occasionally irritating class melodrama. The framing story, an old man reading to a woman with dementia who does not know…
Emma StoneDamien Chazelle's 2016 Hollywood musical. Almost won Best Picture before envelope correction.
Ana de ArmasBlade Runner 2049 is visually extraordinary and narratively inert. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins built some of the most stunning images in recent science fiction cinema, the orange desolation of post-collapse Las Vegas, the grey protein farms extending to the…
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