![]() Ghost Stories(2018)scare me, stretch my mind, take me back · From Bill Goodykoontz at Arizona Republic: The best thing about Ghost Stories and there are a lot of good things is the confidence of its directors. |
![]() Girlfriends (2018)(2018)de-stress me, find me fun, give me hope, make me laugh · From John Anderson at Wall Street Journal: [Girlfriends] applies refreshing layers of honesty and genuine perplexity to the characters’ stories. Age is an engine of Girlfriends. But so is empathy.
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![]() Hereditary(2018)grip me, scare me, stretch my mind · From Justin Chang at Los Angeles Times: The sensationally gifted writer-director Ari Aster may tip his hat to the horror canon (Rosemary’s Baby, The Shining), but he has no interest in making a coy, winking exercise in horror pastiche. With breathtaking deliberation and quiet, unshowy mastery, he spins a devastating portrait of an American family in sudden, inexplicable decline. |
![]() Horn from the Heart(2018)de-stress me, enlighten me, inspire me · From Joe Morgenstern at The Wall Street Journal: It’s full of music that makes the case for its subject’s pre-eminence—he played with the intensity of a highest-category hurricane—and has an interesting slant on the issue of cultural appropriation; Butterfield was white, and the blues he played were, and remain, indelibly black. |
![]() Howard(2018)enlighten me, inspire me, stretch my mind · From Nell Minnow at RogerEbert.com: Not just a love letter to Ashman’s extraordinary talent, but those who will not give up until a story has all of their own imagination, heart, and empathy. |
![]() In My Skin(2018)give me hope, make me laugh, take me back, tug my heartstrings · From Josh Bell at Slant: In My Skin is a bitingly poignant, if cluttered, coming of age story |