These 36 movies earned rare 5-star ratings. Here s why and where you can watch them Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
The Arizona Republic doesn t hand out a lot of five-star reviews. That s as it should be. It s a rating reserved for only the best movies. Not perfect films once you get past Citizen Kane, perfect is a pretty tough, if not impossible, standard to meet. But some movies come awfully close, and those are the ones that we recognize here.
Our rating system says five stars means great. While that s accurate, it only scratches the surface of why these are the few movies that stand above the rest. Whether comedy or drama or some combination of the two, these are movies will not disappoint.
The best movies reviewed by The Arizona Republic from Minari to Her
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Best picture Oscar picks ranked: Check out how nominees from past 5 years measure up By Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 4, 2021, 6:05am
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When the Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers won titles last year, I didn’t hear many people complaining, saying that their championships should come with an asterisk. Or maybe they did, but I was just too busy celebrating to hear their whining. (And, no, those illegal fireworks were most definitely not coming from my house. Somewhere on my street, maybe, but, I repeat, not my house.)
Which is why I have little patience for people protesting that this year’s Oscars are somehow tainted because theaters were mostly shut down and studios shuffled movies out of the season or, I don’t know, they tried watching “Mank” three times but could never get through it. I understand that the Oscars are different this year. Watching the movies at home isn’t as satisfying as sitting in a theater next to someone who ke
For Disney s live action Mulan , costume designer Bina Daigeler had to adapt. Stunt versions of the main character s leather boots were actually Stella McCartney sneakers in disguise. Photo: Instagram/@mulan
The artisans behind some of this year s films were tasked with creating a myriad of stunts, regardless of century or setting. While stunt actors execute the physicalities in a script, it s not without support from other departments, including costumes.
A costume may be wonderful, but unless it can withstand the necessary action sequences as well, it just won t work.
For Disney s live action
Mulan, costume designer Bina Daigeler had to adapt design and corresponding textiles. Stunt versions of Mulan s (Yifei Liu) leather boots were actually Stella McCartney sneakers in disguise.
Politics, ambiguity and righteousness
March 6, 2021
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ is one of my favourite films of all time; Daniel Day-Lewis’ dazzling performance as the titular character and my general love for Lincoln as a political figure being just two of the many reasons. But perhaps the most important reason is that it is arguably the finest depiction of how real political situations require the ability to constantly juggle between contradictory principles; how each of these principles, no matter how unsavoury they seem to us, has validity for the group that subscribes to them; and that even the most noble of deeds require actions that are morally ambiguous. In other words, it is a quintessential work on modern democratic politics.
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