Of all of the movies that I have had to write about this year, I never would have expected Roma to be the hardest. Not because movies can’t stir up complex feelings and make it tough to wrestle them down in print, but because Roma is a very simple film. Alfonso Cuaron drops us into a
Widows is the kind of high quality studio fare adults have been begging for in the age of the big blockbuster. It’s whip smart, flawlessly directed, and ferociously acted, all the platitudes you can label on a good film. But it’s the emotional depth and layers of topical issues that make this movie amazing. The