by
Julien Faddoul
Spider-Man:
Homecoming *
Several months
after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of
his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school
student in Queens, New York City while fighting crime as his superhero alter
ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
The third
incarnation of this story in 15 years. For this reason, and the usual Marvel
movie flaws of tired beats, terrible action and the moronically dogged adherence
to fan-service, no amount of nimbleness and charm – not that there is a great deal
– can starve off the inborn monotony. Early sequences involving high school
antics work the best.
d – Jon Watts
w – Jonathan
Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, Erik
Sommers (Based on the Characters by
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko)
ph – Salvatore Totino
pd – Oliver Scholl
m – Michael
Giacchino
ed – Debbie
Berman, Dan Lebental
cos – Lousie
Frogley
p – Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal
Cast: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey
Jr, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob
Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Abraham
Attah, Hannibal Buress, Kenneth Choi, Selenis Leyva, Angourie Rice, Martin
Starr, Garcelle Beauvais, Michael Chernus
The Lost
City of Z **
A true-life
drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared
while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Gray’s
extraordinary discipline and craftsmanship is once again truly stirring to
witness; his eye for handsomeness and delicate rhythms parasol his films in a
manner totally unique in modern-day cinema. But this work is more emotionally
distant than usual, which would have been tolerable if the narrative – which is
based on real events – weren’t as disjointed as it is.
wd – James
Gray (Based on the Novel by David
Grann)
ph – Darius
Khondji
pd – Jean-Vincent Puzos
m – Christopher
Spelman
ed – John
Axelrad, Lee Haugen
cos – Sonia
Grande
p – Dede Gardner, James Gray, Dale Armin Johnson,
Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna
Miller, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Franco Nero, Bobby
Smalldridge, Tom Mulheron, Edward Ashley
Baby
Driver **
After being
coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself
taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Slick, nifty
piece of pulp action/comedy done with its director’s typical referential and
frenetic style – with an endeavour to avoid using the same shot set-ups twice. But
substance here is lacking, with no character coming off as a real person in any
way. Some will certainly find it obnoxious, others will enjoy the ride.
wd – Edgar Wright
ph – Bill Pope
pd – Marcus Rowland
m – Steven
Price
ed – Jonathan
Amos, Paul Machliss
cos – Courtney
Hoffman
p – Nira Park, Eric Fellner, Tim Beaven
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey,
Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, CJ Jones, Jon Bernthal
The
Beguiled *
During the
Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured
enemy soldier.
Surely Coppola’s
least interesting work to date, not so much adapting the novel again but
directly remaking the 1971 film. Her version strips away the psychosis of
wartime impropriety and sexual frustrations and relies, almost solely, on
atmospherics, and the disequilibrium that comes from isolation. The isolated girl
– the ladybird trapped in a cage, if you will – has always been Coppola’s
dominating theme but there is little evidence of anything else added here and the
reason she would want to remake such material remains, for me, a mystery.
wd – Sofia Coppola (Based on
the Novel by Thomas Cullinan)
ph – Philippe Le Sourd
pd – Anne Ross
ed – Sarah
Flack
cos – Stacey
Battat
p – Sofia Coppola, Youree Henley
Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst,
Elle Fanning, Angourie Rice, Oona Laurence, Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, Wayne
Pére, Eric Ian, Matt Story, Rod J. Pierce
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