2013 · Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · 104 min · Drama, Music
Inside Llewyn Davis is the Coen Brothers at their most melancholic, a gorgeous and quietly devastating portrait of a talented man who can't get out of his own way.
2020 · Emerald Fennell · 113 min · Drama / Thriller
Promising Young Woman is a razor-sharp revenge thriller that takes a familiar genre premise and pushes it into territory that is genuinely uncomfortable rather than cathartic. Carey Mulligan is brilliant as a woman whose grief has calcified into something dangerous, and Emerald Fennell's direction keeps the audience off-balance throughout. The ending has generated more debate than perhaps any other film of its year, and that's exactly the point. This is a film designed to provoke, and it succeeds completely.
2023 · Bradley Cooper · 129 min · Drama
Maestro is Bradley Cooper's ambitious portrait of Leonard Bernstein as a man whose genius and selfishness were inseparable. Carey Mulligan's extraordinary performance as Felicia Montealegre gives the film its emotional center, but Cooper's directorial choices occasionally prioritize visual ambition over the intimate story at the film's heart.