Is there a difference between a movie with good music and a good movie soundtrack? This is the question I left Beautiful Boy considering.
One of the best films of the year, The Broken Circle Breakdown is to predecessors Once and Blue Valentine what Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" was to the Trent Reznor penned original: a gorgeous, stripped down, and vastly more emotionally wrenching distillation of love and music running into tragedy.