Julien Faddoul
Ant-Man and the Wasp *
As Scott Lang balances being both a Superhero and a
father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds
the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
Another inconsequential piece of comic-book filmmaking
with low stakes, sarcastic jokes, the occasional high-energy set-piece and the
predictable Marvel cadence. However, it does boast, along with Doctor Strange (2016), the best visual effects the studio has produced.
d – Peyton Reed
w – Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew
Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari
ph – Dante Spinotti
pd – Shepherd Frankel
m – Christophe Beck
ed – Dan Lebental, Craig Wood
cos – Louise Frogley
p – Stephen Broussard, Kevin Feige
Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Hannah John-Kamen,
Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Bobby
Cannavale, Judy Greer
Set It Up *
Two overworked assistants with nasty bosses try to
get their supervisors out of their hair.
A Netflix original film made by people - largely
female, interestingly - who've seemingly spent a great deal of time watching romantic
comedies of the genre’s 1987 - 2004 heyday. The attempt to recreate that
climate here is admirable, but the film is far too long, far too “ironic” and
far too over-the-top to effectuate sincerity.
d – Claire Scanlon
w – Katie Silberman
ph – Matthew Clark
pd – Jane Musky
m – Laura Karpman
ed – Wendy Greene Bricmont
cos – Rebecca Hofherr
p – Juliet Berman, Justin Nappi
Cast: Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Taye Diggs, Lucy
Liu, Joan Smalls, Meredith Hagner, Pete Davidson, Jon Rudnitsky
Skyscraper
A father goes to great lengths to save his family
from a burning skyscraper.
Too lazy for words: with Johnson yet again playing
a man with a ridiculously singular job description in order to account for his
large physique, euro-trash villains with objectives that make no sense,
needlessly murky action choreography and a Hong Kong setting in the interest of
dominating the Asian market.
wd – Rawson Marshall Thurber
ph – Robert Elswit
pd – Jim Bissell
m – Steve Jablonsky
ed – Julian Clarke, Michael L. Sale
cos – Ann Foley, Luca Mosca
p – Beau Flynn, Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Mary
Parent
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo
Schreiber, Roland Møller, Kevin Rankin, Adrian Holmes, Chin Han
You Were Never Really Here **
A traumatised veteran tracks down missing girls for
a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a
conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip.
Confession: Ramsay belongs on my list of filmmakers
who are widely revered amongst cinephiles, whom I have yet to get fully on-board
with. Her fierce use of affecting compositions and meticulous sound design (in
particular) is admittedly unique, but her writing is both thin and cold, and
dare I say...kind of dumb. This film undoubtedly exhibits formal expertise from
her, Grimes, Greenwood and Phoenix, but the whole is hollow. Feel free to ignore me.
wd – Lynne Ramsay (Based on the Book by
Jonathan Ames)
ph – Tom Townend
pd – Tim Grimes
m – Jonny Greenwood
ed – Joe Bini
cos – Malgosia Turzanska
p – Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, Lynne Ramsay,
James Wilson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alex
Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts, Alessandro Nivola, Ryan Martin Brown,
Jason Babinsky, Frank Pando
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