Cranston dominates and is by far the most entertaining up front; Carell’s low-key portrayal of a mild-mannered man who waits far too long to rebel is the one that will crawl under your skin and come back to haunt you afterward.
There’s more humor than horror in this one.
Scratch the surface of this film and you get much more than a detective thriller. Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation is one of the deadliest places in the Lower 48 states – largely because it’s among the coldest, windiest and snowiest. But the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho for whom the area is home face additional life-threatening challenges: poverty, drug and alcohol addiction and violent crime. Unemployment rates on the reservation exceed 80 percent; the average life expectancy is below age 50.
Al Gore goes beyond the slideshow and visits parts of the world already suffering effects of climate change. Though the recent political news has not been encouraging for environmentalists, the film finds hope in the growth of cost-effective renewable energy.
The Big Sick is a rom/com that’s sweet and funny but complex and smart. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, best-known as a regular on Silicon Valley.
Every white-knuckled swerve of the getaway car, every step or turn of an actor, every word or pause of dialogue is choreographed so exquisitely to the bouncy pop soundtrack that you will be awestruck.
Hollywood has a dreadful track record of trying to render hippies realistically, without condescension. This film is a welcome exception.
Notably generous with atmosphere but parsimonious with explanations for characters’ behavior, Daphne du Maurier’s stories have proven irresistible candy to movie directors – thrice to Alfred Hitchcock alone.
Almost all of this film was shot inside and immediately outside one of Woodstock’s uninhabited Byrdcliffe houses.
The film keeps its focus on the woman herself, and on the apotheosis of her art as loss and suffering hone her core down to diamond hardness of mind and ineffable permeability of spirit.