I've been working very long hours on a TV crew these days, so haven't had a lot of time to keep up with film releases. So I only managed to see four movies in the past seven days! (But I am very much enjoying working on set each day.) One of the big releases this week,
Speak No Evil stars Scoot McNairy and James McAvoy (above) in a hugely unsettling thriller that starts light and almost comical before twisting the suspense to nail-biting levels in the final act. And then Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield came along for a Q&A with director John Crowley for
We Live in Time, a powerfully involving emotional drama that feels bracingly authentic. It's bound to get awards-season attention.
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BEST OUT THIS WEEK:
My Old Ass • In Camera
Speak No Evil • Winner
My Favourite Cake
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The biopic
Winner is the third movie in recent years to tell the story of the whisleblower Reality Winner, this time with a snappy comical edge. Emilia Jones is excellent in the title role, and the film properly gets under her skin. And
Dead Teenagers is the third scary film in writer-director Quinn Armstrong's Fresh Hell trilogy, this time cleverly twisting the teenage summer movie into something meta and genuinely creepy.
I'll have a little more time to attend screenings this coming week, so I'm planning to see the animated adventure
Transformers One, Will Ferrell's documentary
Will & Harper, reform school drama
Nickel Boys, British comedy-drama
Portraits of Dangerous Women, New York comedy
Notice to Quit and British horror
Inherit the Witch, plus anything else I can find time to see.
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