Krisha

The Best Movies of 2016 (According to Erin Whitney)
The Best Movies of 2016 (According to Erin Whitney)
The Best Movies of 2016 (According to Erin Whitney)
How you define the “best” of something varies from one person to the next. The “best” movies can be the ones crafted with the most artistry, the ones that feel particularly culturally significant, the ones you can’t shake hours, days, or months after seeing them. Or perhaps the best films are the ones you simply love the most and are eager returning to again and again.
The Best Movies of 2016
The Best Movies of 2016
The Best Movies of 2016
What a difference six months makes. Back in the summer, the world of film was all gloom and doom. Television was great; the movies were terrible. One respected critic even speculated that someday the world would look back at 2016 as “the year that movies died.”
‘Manchester By the Sea’ Named Best Film of 2016 By National Board of Review
‘Manchester By the Sea’ Named Best Film of 2016 By National Board of Review
‘Manchester By the Sea’ Named Best Film of 2016 By National Board of Review
Kenneth Lonergans’ Manchester By the Sea was a film that debuted with the words “awards season” attached to it. Back in January when the drama premiered at Sundance, many audiences members’ first thought (mine included) was that we’d already found our 2017 Oscar frontrunner. That may not entirely be true anymore, since the fall movie season has introduced some worthy contenders in the forms of La La Land and Moonlight. Yet still, Lonergan’s film is already sweeping up awards.
‘Krisha’ Director on Turning Family Trauma Into His First Film
‘Krisha’ Director on Turning Family Trauma Into His First Film
‘Krisha’ Director on Turning Family Trauma Into His First Film
There’s no doubt about it – Trey Edward Shults’ feature film debut ‘Krisha’ is intense as hell. It’s a family drama about addiction and alcoholism that’s far from easy to digest, yet one with little resemblance to films about similar topics. From the aggressive, yet exhilarating ‘Trainspotting’ to the utterly traumatizing ‘Requiem for a Dream,’ many films about addicts rely on graphic depictions of substance abuse to portray how low one can fall. As important as such stories can be, sometimes smaller personal traumas resonate the loudest.