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  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Joker

    Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Joker

    People love a great villain, the more demented his actions, the more fascinated they are by him and Joker is hypnotically addicting in that sense. It probably was expected that Joaquin Phoenix is going to be astonishing as the Joker. He has been groundbreaking in almost every role he has taken upon himself. If you never really grasped the fine line between what acting vs. performing is, Joaquin Phoenix’s embodiment of Joker is where that fine line vanishes completely.
    Joker is most likely going to be a turning point in Joaquin Phoenix’s career. After 3 Oscar nominations (and winning a Golden Globe, Grammy, and Critics Choice Award), this might just be his year to win all the awards.

    In the center of the movie is the story of Arthur Fleck, the loser basket case mamma’s-boy, a mentally demented freak, who as legend has it, will become Batman’s most fierce’s nemesis.

    Phoenix’s astonishing performance becomes even more so groundbreaking if you consider he is in almost every scene of this two-hour-long movie. Director, Todd Phillips, has set the movie to 1980’s Gotham City, yet he really has made it a point to make this a homage to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, he even goes as far as beholding to his idols by casting Robert De Niro as the late-night talk-show host, Murray Franklin, which Arthur and his mom love watching together.

    One of the comic book fans first complaints on the Todd Phillips film is that he messes things up in Joker, he has made a comic book side-characters origin story become more fascinating than the one of the main character, namely of Batman, the flip side of this is that maybe Phillips just was able to re-imagine what a comic book movie can or should be.

    Joker gives us an unforgettable powerful experience that is hard to shake off. Phoenix puts a human face on an iconic villain that hammers home again and again. A very easy Thumbs Up!

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dunkirk

    Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Dunkirk

    This Jonathan Nolan directed pic is nothing short from breathtaking.

    Nolan was extremely tedious in portraying the story of the evacuation of the British Forces in World War II from the shores of the French harbor, Dunkirk, in a very historically accurate way. He shot the scenes with no less than six-thousand real life background actors at the actual place where the evacuation happened in early June of 1940.

    The amazing thing about this movie is not the high paying actors that star in it but, for a refreshing change, the story and how a genius director immortalized it. In this non-linear narrative, the story is told in three perspectives with overlapping time periods: one week on land, one day at sea, and one hour in the air, all told in masterful visual storytelling, which keeps the audience gasping.

    If you are looking for your standard Hollywood war movie, Dunkirk is definitely not it. Nonetheless, this is a spellbinding awe taking war movie, which will definitely set a new glass ceiling for the genre.

    Although the story seems fairly uncomplicated at first, Dunkirk becomes a tour de force of what modern-day cinema is able to achieve… an instant classic… yet not without the help of a very big budget from a Hollywood studio. I happily give it a thumbs up.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Wonder Woman

    Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Wonder Woman

    With so many flops in recent years, with their DC Comics movies, it is refreshing to see Warner Bros. finally getting it right.

    Patty Jenkins was the perfect choice to direct the re-imaging of this superhero icon. Hiring Israeli-born actress, Gal Gadot, gave the writers the freedom to reinvent Diana Prince as the mythological creature she was in the comics and less of the all-American hero she was in the 70’s television show.

    In this movie, Prince is portrayed as an Amazonian who fights for America, so Gadot’s accent is a big asset, not a handicap.

    The movie is a blast of fresh air, a superhero tailored exactly to what we need this summer. Gadot is powerful, empowering, compassionate, driven by purpose while not forgetting to be entertaining.

    This movie is not about the superhero beating up the villains, but rather about the humanity and the characteristics that made Diana Prince into Wonder Woman.

    Wonder Woman has undoubtedly raised the bar for superhero movies, and I am curious to see how the guys in the DC universe will live up to those standards.

    Director Patty Jenkins with Gal Gadot and Chris Pine gives the audience a full return on their investment and a certain sequel order from the studios.

    I loved almost every minute of this one hundred and forty-one-minute thrill ride; I give it a THUMBS UP!

  • Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Clint Eastwood’s Sully

    Ron Jacobsohn Reviews Clint Eastwood’s Sully

    It was just a matter of time that the “Miracle on the Hudson River” story of Captain Sully Sullenberger from two-thousand-and-nine would become a Hollywood movie, but it took for a very sensitive director like Clint Eastwood to take the story and not make it into a Hollywood blockbuster.

    In “Sully”, Eastwood tells the story in a very subtle almost realistic way and with two time Oscar winner, Tom Hanks, as the lead you know you gonna get a performance of a lifetime.
    The movie is being told truthfully and with real life cameos that make you almost forget you are watching a movie. I loved this movie for its portrayal of a larger than life hero in an honest and genuine way. And may I how refreshing it was to watch an awards movie where the filmmaker can actually tell his whole story in ninety-five-minute.
    “Sully” is already making the festival circles and gearing serious Oscar buzz and the fact that real life captain Sullenberger is part of the publicity campaign can never hurt, as we all love a great American hero’s.
    This is a no-brainer, I give it a THUMBS-UP!