Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (1865)

Content

Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories

Jesse Eisenberg

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Bream Gives Me Hiccups: And Other Stories is the whip-smart fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated...

Animal: An Autobiography of the Female Body

Sara Pascoe

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Sara is a comedian who has talked and joked about female sexuality, psychology and the media's...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Luce (2019) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020 (Updated Nov 20, 2020)

Luce (2019)

2019 | Drama

7.0

(4 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Incendiary, confrontational filmmaking that doesn't pull a single punch but also has the foresight to not offer a single easy answer to its repertoire of timely themes and obscured ideologies. All that and it also manages to be one hell of a pulse-pounding thriller that almost solely consists of sprawling, uncomfortable dialogue exchanges fired one right after the other with minimal diversions. Feels like a ticking time bomb that could explode at any moment. Every character is definable and every performance therein is fearless - that's all to say that this is undoubtedly the freshest take on small-minded suburbia we've had in seemingly forever; if ever there were a film for this current volatile period in American history where countless amounts of its long-standing racial injustices are being very justifiably put into question - this would be one them. On a personal preference, this also just happens to be just how I like my dramas: talky, deeply character-driven, morally ambiguous, gradually explosive, and very glossy aesthetic-wise. One of the best movies I've ever seen.