“Flight risk”
In Mel Gibson’s return to directing, an airman (Michelle Dockery) joins a pilot (Mark Wahlberg) to bring a high-level informant (Tocker Grace) to justice. As expected, things get weird in the sky.
From our review:
“Flight Risk” fails because the movie isn’t actually Gibson’s fault. He knows how to shoot action sequences. Instead, the script is all over the place, in a tired and half-hearted way. This is the kind of thriller that keeps screaming at the characters to pay attention.
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Critic’s Choice
Spectrum Spectacular.
‘Face’
Directed by Steven Soderberg, this quietly tense chiller is told from the point of view of a ghost that haunts a family’s home and takes a particular interest in their daughter Chloe (Callina Liang).
From our review:
Chloe’s past, her parents’ marriage, and the ghost’s restricted perspective come together to create an anxiety that the filmmakers build on until things get weird, vibrating with tension. There are some haunted house shocks, but the cumulative effect is more unsettling than scary. To some degree, the film is an elaborate storytelling exercise for Soderbergh, but it’s one with stakes and characters that grow for you to care for, as they creep into the film.
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(i) make phone calls;
‘inheritance’
After discovering that her father is a spy, Maya (Phoebe Dainiball) embarks on an Earth-extermination adventure in this Neil Berger-directed thriller shot entirely on an iPhone.
From our review:
If you’re going to risk making a movie on the same device that many of us use to record our kids’ birthdays and the concert we went to last weekend, you really have to sell it. yeah. And “The Inheritance” doesn’t just fail to sell its aesthetic. We also don’t sell stories.
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Goes badly where many movies have gone before.
“Star Trek: Section 31”
Michelle Yeoh stars as Philippa Georgiou, a wanted man who reluctantly joins an intergalactic spy agency in this spin-off directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.
From our review:
Captain Picard doesn’t approve. Fortunately, he has yet to comment on Star Trek: Section 31, the 14th film in the franchise. Set in 2333 – the so-called lost era between the original film and the Picard series Star Trek: The Next Generation – the unflappable genre looks will have a hard time keeping them straight.
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Colors that are too far inside the line.
“Inner color”
This anime was directed by Yamada. The ability to see people’s “colors” – their auras and spirits, as she forms bands and forgets about friendships.
From our review:
The band is so isolated that even small acts of independence in each of the three early musicians do not feel like “The Colors Insion” hints at each character’s deeper motivations and stakes. It has a nice tone. Substantive enough to provide a sense of urgency to the story.
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Widow reaches a new peak.
‘rose’
After her husband dies, Rose (Françoise Fabien) must find a way to survive He wasn’t there and in the process discovers himself in this touching drama directed by Aurélie Saada.
From our review:
On paper, the premise – a sheltered woman who learns to embrace a more adventurous, extroverted version of herself later in life – is too cute by half. On screen, it just crosses that line sometimes.
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Edited by Kelina Moore.
