Aisha Williams, the bossy matriarch, showcases a complicated character, oscillating between charm and hostility, particularly evident in her interactions with her son’s fiancée and her rival.
Ben muses about what's behind their shared love of extreme activities, suggesting that while some seek perfection or a thrill, 'personally, I think the wiring is just messed up.' This insight foreshadows the darker elements of the story as he hunts Sasha with a bow and arrow.
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TV's best ever video game adaptation screamed back to life with the year's most traumatic killing off of a beloved character. Losing one half of the show's central duo was no easy thing to move past, but The Last of Us morphed into a touching meditation on grief, loss and the pain of love left unspoken with added mushroom monsters. What we said: A gutsy and thoughtful rendering of humans on the edge. Read more
When she tries to deliver a get-well card from the child's classmates, she learns that the girl, Dinah, has been mysteriously spirited away and that official records of her fate are sealed. The more resistance Sarah encounters in her quest for Dinah, the harder she searches, hiring a sad-sack private investigator, Joe (Adam Godley), to help her. This leads to further murders and mysteries, sending Sarah, along with Joe's wife, Zoë (Thompson), on the road to save the little girl.
Greek weird-wave titan Yorgos Lanthimos has opted for a slight change of tack with Bugonia. After two ambitious projects - the Oscar-winning Poor Things and the more coolly received feel-bad anthology Kinds of Kindness - the director offers a lean and mean thriller with more focus and momentum than any of his work since The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
This ineffably creepy, often unbearably tense and disquieting film has a little of early Christopher Nolan (the Nolan of Following and Memento), with hints of Lynch and Cronenberg in its hallucinatory episodes.
To see a film like this representing the trans community with a lead intersex character [like] we've never seen before - so in your face - it's f***ing wild and messy and it's a wild ride.
In Cold Light prizing visceral impact over narrative clarity sometimes leaves too many unanswered questions, but there isn't much time to criticize while the film races forward.
If you're looking for something to scratch a Die Hard itch, that is certainly what Last Resort is trying to do, but there are many superior Die Hard rip-offs available.
