Black Bag seems to aim for what Gone Girl successfully achieved - a suspenseful thriller that, at its core, is really about relationships and marriage. However, it doesn’t quite walk that tightrope as effectively. The way it weaves its dual storylines is clever, but the dialogue often feels dense and overly direct. Or maybe the characters really did hate each other that much.
The film bounces between its two central dynamics, which ultimately affects the pacing. At a certain point,…
honestly feel I’m beneath it to comment anything right now. definitely will need to revisit. the filmmaking is on another level. the score slaps HARD. felicty jones the woman that you are. adrien brody that gold naked man is yours!
Most of the complaints I’ve heard about A Complete Unknown center on the fact that Bob Dylan remains an enigma by the film’s end. That if measured from a cradle to casket biopic meter - the film would fall short. That’s a fair critique, yet it’s particularly interesting given that the title should at least invite us to explore precisely that mystery. But then again, we’ve seen biopics that simply lift their titles from a subject’s most famous song- Bohemian…
