Grief is the price of attachment, and fiction keeps trying to make the invoice legible. This tag collects reviews and essays on stories about loss: mourning rendered honestly, and the strange comfort of watching it done well.
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Room (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Emma Donoghue adapted her own novel and kept the one decision that makes it bearable, which is that everything is narrated by a five-year-old who thinks the shed is…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
John Wick (2014) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two stuntmen directed it for twenty million dollars, put the camera far enough back to see the whole body, and built an entire criminal economy out of about…
2010sSeptember 10, 2026
Gravity (2013) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cuaron opens on a thirteen minute unbroken shot and then destroys everything in it. The technical achievement is genuine and permanent. The dialogue keeps explaining a film that was…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
The Time Machine (2002) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. H. G. Wells's great-grandson directed it, collapsed from exhaustion, and Gore Verbinski shot the last eighteen days. The first act is genuinely good and the film throws…
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
Atonement (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A thirteen-year-old tells a lie and two lives end. The last ten minutes do not reveal a fact, they change what kind of object you have been watching.
2000sSeptember 10, 2026
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Anderson's least loved film and his saddest. A failing documentarian on a converted research vessel, hunting a shark that may not exist, and the…
1970sMay 19, 2026
Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Venice grief drama. Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie.
1940sMay 19, 2026
A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…
2000sMay 19, 2026
Multiple intertwined London relationships unfold across the five weeks leading up to Christmas, from the Prime Minister to schoolchildren. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's 2003 British romantic comedy depicting multiple interconnected London relationships unfolding across the five weeks leading up…
1980sMay 19, 2026
A suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
1980sMay 19, 2026
A family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. Pet Sematary is Mary Lambert's 1989 American horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel, depicting a Boston physician who moves…
2010sMay 19, 2026
Made viewers cry in theaters. The production combines archival footage from the program with new interviews and exploration of Rogers's larger cultural significance.
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