This Goal Wins

I think there are a lot of people who have mixed feelings on The Great Beauty and The Young Pope filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, who is admittedly A Lot, but I am not one of those people -- I have pretty much swooned myself silly over everything he's done. And his latest, an 80s semi-autobiographical tale called The Hand of God that is hitting Netflix tomorrow, is no exception -- my review for Pajiba is now up, go read it over there if you like. I actually talk about sports, if you can believe it! That's how much I liked the movie. I went there. And I will admit that this one, sprawling at it is, took me two watches for it to click into place, but holy hell am I all in on it now. This is one of the best movies of the year, don't miss it.