One of the most layered, best performed, technically complex, and thoroughly convincing dramas of the year, director and co-writer Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is an absolute powerhouse of a film.
Riz Ahmed
A movie with a lot on its mind and not enough time and space to express it all, Mogul Mowgli is a deliberately off-balance drama bolstered by an electrifying leading performance from co-writer and producer Riz Ahmed.
A unique, beguiling, and subtly humorous take on the western genre, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of Canadian novelist Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers breathes ingenious new life into a cinematic artform that always feels like it’s on perpetual life support.
Marred by a clear, obvious, and marked series of poor decisions throughout the filmmaking process, the standalone, antiheroic Venom movie will disappoint fans of one of Spider-Man’s greatest nemeses to no end, and will leave casual observers of comic book films half-heartedly shrugging in apathy.