Philip Seymour Hoffman does his level best to elevate Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-friendly Miramax Western, but even he can’t save it.
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It’s good, but Anthony Minghella’s 1999 adaptation really comes alive when Philip Seymour Hoffman’s scumbag enters the picture.
Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning character drama is a safe, middlebrow nuts-and-bolts picture as formative as it is uncreative for the filmmaker.
Kitty Green’s latest incisively explores the systems that protect predators, resulting in something more than a simple Weinstein allegory.
With his ninth film coming out this month, we look back on the indie titan and his deeply metatextual approach to cinema.