Director Justin Kurzel envisions the days leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre from the killer’s point of view. The emphasis here is on understanding the context that led to the tragedy, without excusing either the killer or the crime.
A quiet man with a dark past, quirky villagers, and a climactic bloodbath, all set in the quiet Welsh countryside.
Werner Herzog splashes much-needed cold water on the idea that humans can simply colonize another planet if/when Earth becomes uninhabitable.
A claustrophobic sense of entrapment pervades Hany Abu-Assad’s Palestine-based political thriller.
A rare genre film that doesn’t rely on gimmicks, special effects and, frankly, audience expectations.
Keith Maitland’s freewheeling documentary centers on Michael Brody Jr., the 21-year-old heir to a margarine fortune who, in 1970, announced he was giving away $25 million.
Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.
While offering up a lot of intriguing ideas, A Banquet works quite well as a domestic drama but falls short as horror.
