Robert Pattinson
A newly crowned king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
The King may not be Michôd’s best by any means, but with strong performances and cinematography, it’s a strong effort nonetheless.
The Lighthouse tells the story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
What happens to those without resources to evacuate a dying world? John Stanford Owen examines life and humanity in High Life.
In High Life, a father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
The English language debut of iconic French director Claire Denis is thematically dense and transgressive, designed to provoke intense debate.
With Damsel, the Zellner brothers take a whimsy and a flippant attitude towards the grit of the modern Western. Their approach is admirable and considerably original, but ultimately a failure.
Good Time is a fast-paced, oscillation of raw emotion and manic suspense that plays directly to Pattinson’s continually emerging thespian strengths.
The Lost City of Z is a work about a British explorer that triumphs in visual splendor, forming an identity as a meditative outlook on life.
Maps To The Stars is about the aspects of Hollywood that, as a film fan, I‘d rather not think about. Written by the acerbic Bruce Wagner, it is about the cynicism of the industry, about the actors who are motivated by vanity and the money-minded executives who exploit them. These people’s heads have been long removed from their shoulders, their molly-coddled lives are run by other people as they incessantly try and top up their serotonin through drink, drugs, sex and bastardised spiritualism with increasingly less success.
Here at Film Inquiry, we were quite excited about The Rover. The trailer looked very promising; moreover, the movie was directed by famous and notorious director David Michôd. Famous for his hauntingly emotional scripts, notorious for the amounts of violence he tends to feature.