Very solid sci-fi horror with some great performances all round. The cinematography was beautiful and heavily fitting of the tone, claustrophobic when it needed to be and distant and voyeuristic at others. There's some fantastic shots that linger, allowing the audience to scan the background for any movement or hint of The Invisible Man's presence, it's a pretty intense paranoia experience.
There are a few things in the story I think could have used a little more exposition but clocking…
Didn't even have ONE conundrum in it, not even a cameo by Rachel Riley or Carol Vorderman, and it didn't even play the countdown theme when there was 30 seconds left on the clock before a character dies.
Very confusing adaption of the Channel 4 game show.
As a standalone movie it's also pretty garbage - would avoid.
So I'm a bit late to the game with Uncut Gems, but after some repeated recommendations from a friend I finally freed up and evening to get around to it. I went into this film expecting a 'pretty good' dramedy with some fairly stellar 'serious' acting from Sandler (the likes of which I've enjoyed in the past in Punch Drunk Love, The Meyerowitz Stories and even Reign Over Me). What I got was one of the most engaging, enthralling and…
Marriage Story has such an unabashed and often visceral realness to it it's almost impossible not to be moved by it. Adam Driver and Scarlet Johansson both put on an incredible performance as the two halves of a partnership in the throes of falling apart. In fact, the film is absolutely stuffed with great performances from some fairly big names and great performers but never at the expense of feeling 'crowded'. Marriage Story is as much a dive into how…
