A beautifully made drama goes to thrilling heights, thanks largely to an incredible performance from Kelvin Harrison Jr, but then struggles on the way down
There are two movies playing out within Waves, the third offering from the rising indie wunderkind Trey Edward Shults, perhaps not surprising to anyone familiar with his previous two efforts. In Krisha, an uneasy
Thanksgiving reunion oscillated between exploring a tense family drama and the unravelling psyche of an unstable older woman. In It Comes at Night, a viral outbreak led to both a grim post-apocalyptic morality tale and a nightmarish body horror. Both films are the work of an ambitious, often audacious film-maker tasking himself with a great deal but effortlessly rising to the challenge and with his latest film, already lauded at this year’s Telluride film festival, he’s aiming for something even bigger.
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