This sampling of a few genres still is a thoughtful entry worthy of an Oscar not for Best International Feature. A Tunisian import makes its way beneath the surface. Kaouther Ben Hania writes and helms The Man Who Sold His Skin which centers on a Syrian man Sam Ali who takes refuge in Lebanon to […]
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In the Earth
You feel a palpable sense of dread and paranoia in this brand of survival horror from the maker of Free Fire and last year’s remake of the Hitchcock classic Rebecca. Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth doesn’t have anything meaningful to say about a ravaging virus (it was shot in 15 days about an hour outside […]
Moffie
A harrowing and pictorial tale around military conscription in early 1980’s Apartheid is eloquently illuminated by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus. His Moffie (fully subtitled, and a derogatory term in the native tongue) works fairly persuasively from Andre Carl van Der Merwe’s autobiography. As the white minority South African ruling body handles the border conflict […]
The Unholy
Interlacing an investigative thriller with religious horror turns out to be barely taut and mostly timid in relying on tired tropes. The Unholy stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan (remembered from pics like Watchmen and The Losers through his career resurgence has been Negan in AMC’s The Waling Dead) in an ensemble that includes Cary Elwes and […]
French Exit
This new dramedy from Azazel Jacobs seems to be caught betweena starring vehicle for Michelle Pfeiffer and an arch, goofy artificiality. French Exit earned the actress of Mother! (2017), The Family and Dark Shadows a recent Golden Globe nomination for her shavings into icy hauteur of a widowed Manhattan socialite who takes an exhaustive entitlement with […]