Including directorial debuts, mysterious documentaries, and violent fever dreams.
Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
10.A Star Is Born
What would you have me do?
The 2018Star Is Bornis arare conceptually nostalgic projectthat somehow doesnt feel like a watered-down facsimile in the moment.
In that sense, its perfectly complemented by the bone-dry, Coens-esque script.
The gags and the body count both of them relentless and deviously underplayed left me breathless.
Resisting its pull is futile.
Burnhams script is unsparing in its depiction of adolescent humiliations, andyet never mean.
(TheWelcome to the Dollhousecomparisons only go so far.)
one of the best line readings of the year.
