Beats
With distinctive black-and-white cinematography, masterful tracking shots, and an incredible ability to capture dancing bodies, Beats makes us feel as though we too are at the rave.
With distinctive black-and-white cinematography, masterful tracking shots, and an incredible ability to capture dancing bodies, Beats makes us feel as though we too are at the rave.
A hijacking drama with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a pilot of an airplane taken over by terrorists.
A teenager copes with the loss of her father and strives to survive on her own during a cross-country trek.
The script walks a sometimes uneasy line between genuine darkness and a Monty Python–esque embrace of anachronism and the bizarre.
An expert and affecting blend of genres (thriller, comedy, gangster film).
A dark screwball comedy set in a seedy Arkansas hospital in the late 1990s.
It’s perhaps an understatement to say this teen comedy yields to clichés. Yet, it avoids stereotypes and subverts a few classic tropes too.
The drama’s greatest strength is that writer/director Anna Kerrigan opts for nuance.
Striking, at times exhilarating, but ultimately uneven, the adaptation of Peter Carey's novel is a fascinating addition to the depictions of the outlaw Ned Kelly.