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Aug 12, 2022 · Fall. Scott Mann ’s “Fall” belongs to the trapped horror subgenre of films like “ The Shallows ” and “ Open Water ,” but it takes a dynamic that usually unfolds in the middle of deep water to thousands of feet in the air. Mann and co-writer Jonathan Frank have a clever concept that results in a film that should be avoided by ...
Sep 18, 2020 · Powered by JustWatch. The first 30 minutes or so of John Hyams ’ “Alone” are promising. Jessica ( Jules Willcox) packs up her U-Haul trailer and moves out of Portland, Oregon for parts unknown. Whatever parts they are, they’re deep in the wilderness. Jessica is running from Something Traumatic, as befitting all protagonists in this kind ...
Jun 6, 1998 · Written by. Steven Rogers. "Hope Floats" begins with a talk show where a woman learns that her husband and her best friend are having an affair. Devastated, she flees from Chicago with her young daughter and moves back in with her mother in Smithville, Texas. Everybody in Smithville (and the world) witnessed her public humiliation.
Jul 15, 2022 · For a film about a brave woman who’s grown up in the wild, living by her own rules, “Where the Crawdads Sing” is unusually tepid and restrained. And aside from Daisy Edgar-Jones ’ multi-layered performance as its central figure, the characters never evolve beyond a basic trait or two. We begin in October 1969 in the marshes of fictional ...
May 25, 2018 · The film is one long interrogation, not only from Jennifer the character's standpoint, but from a directorial standpoint. Characters look straight at the camera, dead-on, standing in eerie tableaux, caught as though for a camera, photos trapped in an album, telling no tales. Time folds in on itself, as Jennifer moves through her own past.
Sep 29, 2023 · The Creator. It’s ironically apt that “The Creator,” about the potential and peril of artificial intelligence, merely resembles profound science fiction. Rich in atmosphere but short on substance, director and co-writer Gareth Edwards ’ film has the look and tone of a serious, original work of art, but it ends up feeling empty as it ...
Mar 3, 2023 · David Robert Mitchell ’s 2014 film is an especially prominent, let’s say, influence on “Smile,” which, combined with its placement on the “it’s really about trauma” continuum, make this a less bracing movie experience than it might have been had it broken the mold more aggressively. It does introduce Finn as a capable horror ...
