7.5
… the best kind of slow burn …
4.5
This is at times a thunderously dull film, listlessly limping its way through a leaden script that never quite commits to a reason for its existence.
"Hey Flack, you got a joke for us today?"
… a deeply weird and inconsistent film, veering from genuinely funny to bleak and bloody at a moment’s notice.
There is a general's staff hidden in every soldier's kitbag. The ageless Ridley Scott returns with possibly his most ambitious film to date, a project that started with Stanley Kubrick,
If you are prepared for a big viewer commitment and relish those animated discussions afterwards (everyone will have a different bit to pick apart/comment on), then go. But also, be
The trailer has just dropped for Hereditary helmer Ari Aster’s latest cinematic freakout: Beau is Afraid.
Like his previous two films (Beginners, 20th Century Women), the filmmaker's latest C'mon C'mon about a nice guy (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew, is semi-autobiographical.
...takes the skeleton of an action movie and uses it as a scaffold on which to build a bleak and confronting portrait of trauma and loss.
...while it’s occasionally funny, and even more infrequently poignant, there are too many times when it feels flat and a bit of a hard slog...