“How unusual to see a woman’s perspective on love presented so plainly as Varda does in ‘La Pointe Courte.'”
“After the twin climaxes of last week’s Hodor reveal and Daenerys’ enflamed emergence in the preceding episode, it was only natural for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ to need a bit of a breather.”
“There will be unrequited love and monstrous desires amongst these essays.”
A Column on Action Films by Dylan Moses Griffin
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“Many critics object to what they perceive to be the film’s misogynist romanticism, but Billy is not simply the ‘beast’ to his good woman’s ‘beauty.'”
“It is a film for little humans (and big humans) that places hopefulness, imagination and kindness above all else.”
