Ticket Stubs #11: A Farewell to Arms

'American Gangster,' 'Suspiria,' 'Silver Linings Playbook,' and 'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.'

This Is Not An Opera: ‘Margaret’ and the Externalization of Trauma

‘Margaret’ on the other hand, unshackled to direct connections to 9/11, is allowed to operate within the hazy cloud of unease that had since enveloped both the New York metropolitan area and the Western world writ large. Lonergan’s filmmaking acutely creates a world full of characters who are doing their best to hold together lives marred by tragedy expressed and repressed.