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PREVENGE ★★★½☆
D: Alice Lowe.
S: Alice Lowe, Kate Dickie, Kayvan Novak, Gemma Whelan, Jo Hartley, Eileen Davies.
Comedy vengeance flick. Gory, intentionally awkward, lean - no time wasting. I rate the gear-shift ending.
BRIMSTONE ★★★★☆
D: Martin Koolhoven (Winter in Wartime).
S: Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Emilia Jones, Carice Van Houten, Kit Harington.
Unrelentingly brutal. Almost unwatchable at times. So well made. Tenser than most horrors. Fanning excels.
SNOWDEN ★★★½☆
D: Oliver Stone (Savages, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, South of the Border, W., World Trade Centre, Alexander, Commandante, Any Given Sunday, U Turn, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, Platoon, Salvador).
S: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Lakeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage.
Understandable heart-string tug/celebration. Not a return to greatness for Oliver Stone, but no dud either.
PLANETARIUM ★★☆☆☆
D: Rebecca Zlotowski (Grand Central, Belle épine).
S: Natalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Salinger, Amira Casar, Pierre Salvadori, Louis Garrel.
A mess. Turgid, strained, over-acted. A combination of genres don't meld smoothly. (Music by Rob is suberb.)
THE WAILING ★★★½☆
D: Na Hong-jin (The Yellow Sea, The Chaser).
S: Jung-min Hwang, Woo-hee Chun, Jun Kunimura, Do Won Kwak.
A nightmarish police procedural horror. Still digesting. Vague mechanics is both an asset and a frustration.
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