The most intriguing aspect of Harry Lighton’s debut feature Pillion is that it attempts a love story, of sorts, that is specific by design yet reaching for a universal longing. In adapting Adam Mars-Jones’ 2020 novel Box Hill, Lighton has made a sometimes funny, sometimes explicit and…
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Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Brady Corbet’s remarkable The Brutalist—a sprawling, 3.5-hour immigrant epic spanning decades and continents—is its intimacy, despite its determined scale. Structured in two acts with a “built-in” fifteen-minute intermission, the film impresses in ambition and reach while maintaining an…
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