Every single thing about Dolores Claiborne (1995) fascinates me. It’s one of the maybe twenty films that I consider to be perfect (not flawed perfect, but perfect perfect.) It is also very much a (personal) outlier.
It feels out of place on my top, top movie list because it’s the only one that can be found outside the action/adventure, drama, thriller, and science fiction genres. I would say Dolores Claiborne (1995) is a psychological drama with strong horror themes, some thriller elements, and a mystery sub-plot. While I feel one could debate classifying it a horror movie (a genre that is a lot more miss than hit for me) it is very clear that it is not a comedy. There’s not a single moment of levity in the entire runtime.
Of the good (but not popular) movies I love from that era I can usually recall how I got onto a given film. But I cannot for the life of me remember how I ever decided to watch a movie that (at first glance) gives off such strong Stone Angel vibes.
There’s also this weird thing where the screenplay was written by my current (since about five years) favourite filmmaker – Tony Gilroy, but I somehow never really noticed he also penned this outlier movie from 1995 that I love.
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