Its Oscar nomination this week as Best Foreign-Language Film isn’t the only thing that makes The Insult a must-see – Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri’s legal thriller fairly crackles with timely provocations. And don’t be put off if the film’s structure initially seems schematic to a fault. This is a director …
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No matter how senseless the plots of his movies, Jaume Collet-Serra can direct the hell out of them – andThe Commuter is no exception. The Spanish filmmaker, who wickedly used Blake Lively as shark bait in The Shallows, keeps the tension on such a high burner that you won’t realize …
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Director Ridley Scott is a real magician. He sure as hell pulls a rabbit out of a hat in All the Money in the World, a fact-based kidnap thriller that seemed on the road to becoming the first cinema casualty of the sexual misconduct era. There was Scott, ready to …
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With its cast of skeletons and macabre “I see dead people” vibe, Coco may be the strangest thing ever to come out of the Pixar animation factory. That’s a good thing. Their latest animated movie finds the company spreading its wings and pushing into new territory, including betrayal and murder, …
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There are cynics out there who snicker at any film, based on a true story, that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit at overcoming a physical handicap. I’ve been among the snickerers myself. But Breathe, the first film directed by motion-capture acting wizard Andy Serkis (Gollum, Snoke, King Kong, …
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