Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2015)
Mustafa is a figure inspired by several religious leaders, and his sayings consist of truisms with which most major religions would agree.
Author: Evan Cogswell
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The Criterion Collection: Don’t Look Now
Don't Look Now (★★★★½) is one of the rarest types of films. Not only is it an unnerving thriller saturated with supernatural themes concerning grief, deceptive appearances, ESP, and acceptance of death, but it is also one of the few films to improve on its excellent source material, the 1971 short story of the same title by Daphne du Maurier.
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When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi, 2014)
"In this world there's an invisible magic circle. There's an inside and an outside [....] I'm outside, but it doesn't really matter."
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The Lesson (Grozeva and Valchanov, 2014)
Seemingly harmless misdemeanors affect entire communities.
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Belle and Sebastian (Vanier, 2013)
Evan Cogswell gives 4/5 stars to Belle and Sebastian: "Great Pyrenees are beautiful dogs, and the one the filmmakers got to play Belle is absolutely elegant."
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Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005) — Ten Years Later
So the question becomes: how does Batman Begins hold up in a post-Avengers world?
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(Dis)honesty: The Truth About Lies (Melamede, 2015)
A famous G. K. Chesterton quote states, "Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
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Still Alice (Glatzer & Westmoreland, 2014)
Still Alice absolutely deserves an acting award, for Kristen Stewart.
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Like Sunday, Like Rain (Whaley, 2014)
The unusual chemistry between them is passable, if again, not very remarkable.
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Into the Woods (Marshall, 2014)
The cow as white as milk, the cape as red as blood, the hair as yellow as corn, and the slipper as pure as gold.