3 pieces
The most consistent artistic project in English-language cinema of the last decade has not been a movement or a style. It has been a subject: grief, treated with a specific patience that the previous decade did not allow.
The rom-com was commercially dead for a decade. It returned in 2023-25 and the return was not coincidence. An essay on what the surrounding cinema had become, and why audiences wanted this back.
Two Oscar nominations, a slow-burn awards run, and a second viewing at home. Celine Song's debut keeps revealing itself. An argument for the film that refuses its own climax.