Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Frustrating, and borderline infuriating. This isn’t so much a film as it is a series of vignettes, carried by stellar actors struggling to eke a decent performance out of an inexplicably sloppy script. As with Men, Garland’s strengths with theme and character work doubly hard against him when the subject matter falls outside of his immediate grasp.
As the film drags on, what could have been a powerful commentary on the feedback loop that connects politics, warfare, and journalism instead…