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ALL I SEE IS YOU ★★★★☆
D: Marc Forster (World War Z, Machine Gun Preacher, Quantum of Solace, The Kite Runner, Stranger Than Fiction, Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball).
S: Blake Lively, Jason Clarke, Ahna O'Reilly, Yvonne Strahovski, Danny Huston.
Conveying blindness and sight recovery, an ENTER THE VOID and JULIA'S EYES cross.
Sex and insecurity in mix.
THE JOURNEY ★★★½☆
D: Nick Hamm (The Hole).
S: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Toby Stephens, Freddie Highmore.
Imagined discourse arguably nullifying veracity scepticism, thanks to energy, game performances and sharpness.
Three GAME OF THRONES cast alumni in THE JOURNEY:
-Ser Barristan Selmy (Ian McElhinney)
-Pod (Daniel Portman)
-Ser Meryn Trant (Ian Beattie)
SALT AND FIRE ★★★☆☆
D: Werner Herzog (Queen of the Desert; On Death Row; Into the Abyss; Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Happy People: A Year in the Taiga; My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Rescue Dawn; Grizzly Man; My Best Fiend; Cobra Verde; Fitzcarraldo; Woyzeck; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; Aguirre, the Wrath of God).
S: Michael Shannon, Gael García Bernal, Veronica Ferres.
Striking, funny, padded.
Is Werner Herzog interested in making a laugh-less narrative feature any more?
THE NET ★★★★☆
D: Kim Ki-duk (Moebius; Pieta; Time; Samaritan Girl; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring; The Isle).
S: Ryoo Seung-bum, Lee Won-gun, Kim Young-min, Choi Guy-hwa.
A Kafkaesque nightmare about a man put through political wringers. An ordeal made palatable by punctuations of Kim Ki-duk's wry humour.
COLOSSAL ★★★★☆
D: Nacho Vigalondo (Open Windows, Extraterrestrial, Timecrimes).
S: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson.
A kaiju monster movie more inventive than PACIFIC RIM and the Hollywood GODZILLAs. Anne Hathaway excels.
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