There was something for everyone in this week's massive release, A Minecraft Movie. directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite!!!) Putting things into perspective, Minecraft has already amassed more than double
7.5
... brave, beautifully put together and has an epic story to tell ...
6.5
...while Joon-ho’s direction is superb, with strikingly beautiful imagery and world building, his script is inconsistent and seems to shy away from the big questions that it asks.
Long before the rise of Twitter, Instagram influencers, and 24/7 media cycles, the original writers of The Wizard of Oz and Wicked seemed to possess an uncanny foresight. They didn’t just write
Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong is Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova is Ivana Trump. From director Ali Abbasi (Border, Holy Spider) and writer Gabriel Sherman (The Loudest Voice). Check
Some of the best films at the Cannes Film Festival screened out of competition.
So, what’s the deal with unexpected US box office hit Sound of Freedom?
… a simple story, but crafted as a very effective piece of cinema that is well worth catching.
… when everyone starts shaking hands across the divide and gets to taking down masked assailants, the film really picks up and those looking for blood will be rewarded.
James Gray (Ad Astra, The Lost City of Z, We Own the Night, Little Odessa) returns to more seemingly personal territory with this story about growing up in '80s America