Review: Bi Gan's time-bending noir 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is a magical piece of filmmaking
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Apr 22, 2019
4 minutes
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Good new movies, regardless of what others may tell you, are never in short supply. Enter any theater in Los Angeles and you are more than likely to find one worth your time. What you are less apt to find is enchantment: a picture that succeeds, through some alchemy of dazzling trickery and genuine feeling, in recapturing the pleasures of what was once commonly known as "movie magic."
But lo and behold, an honest-to-God, how'd-they-do-that enchantment has slipped into theaters, and as is fitting for a work of such transparently pure cinema, words seem even less adequate than usual to the task of describing it.
The glory of "Long Day's Journey Into Night," a full-body swoon of
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