Palm Trees and Power Lines
By Andrew Plimpton March 3, 2023
The story of how a lonely, teenage girl is groomed and exploited by an older man.
The story of how a lonely, teenage girl is groomed and exploited by an older man.
Writer/director Raven Jackson’s debut feature reveals a perceptive and immensely talented filmmaker. The pleasures here are mainly mined from the visual and aural details.
The movie starts as a character study piece and slowly becomes a psychological thriller (kind of) where an artist is no longer the author of her fate.
People often talk about a piece of art being “timely.” Yet I doubt anyone involved in the preproduction of this drama could have imagined how, well, timely the movie would be.
Writer/director James Gray places a lot of responsibility on the slender shoulders of his young actors in this re-creation of his early 1980s upbringing.
As the sole lead, Jennifer Lawrence returns in her best film in years.
A hapless hunter chases a vision of masculine self-reliance.
What happens when the comfort of an online relationship turns cold.
This cringey comedy may be the best unofficial sequel to the 2010 documentary Catfish.