Tollbooth
By Andrew Plimpton March 19, 2022
A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
A boxer searches for her younger sister, who may have been abducted by a sex-trafficking ring.
A highly satisfying blend of a modern-day woman’s picture and a tidy, B-movie thriller.
Ruin porn addicts will revel in the film’s rich dinginess, while others may be pulled in by a gruffly sentimental story of a purehearted immigrant putting his life on the line for distinctly lesser men.
What film noir—which this still is even though it is shot in color, and heavy on garish reds—has a 150-minute running time?
A well-acted but scattershot film that works better when it sticks to crime.
A bouillabaisse of a film that mixes, not always successfully, the suspenseful procedural investigation of director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight with the touching redemption stories of his earlier movies.
A film where the world conspires against its protagonist and every odd camera angle or unidentifiable sound offers proof of the conspiracy.
Watching director Miranda July’s new film is like inhabiting someone else’s nightmare.