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The Immigrant (2013)
Mediocre in all depts: script, direction, acting, photography
A lousy melodramatic tear-jerker serialized fiction for XIXth century magazines, served by a heavy handed sepia photography which reinforces the outdated feel, without any magic. Marion Cotillard keeps whining, which points at flawed directions to actors from Gray. She's dull, gloomy and annoying throughout. The best bits are the stage shows.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
sermon
The rhetoric of a sermon. If you like TV preachers this one's for you. And oddly enough Sam Raimi's Evil Dead clearly inspired the battle scenes.
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Depressing existential experiment in sorrow
Why would you want to inflict upon your good self a painful depressing story in which the hero's family members die one after the other? Your empathy is tried yet you never shed a tear as the main character - who's only virtue is to oppose a stone poker face to all the worst events that one can fear from life - lives because he did not manage to shoot himself in the head.