strongest: images
weakest: message + montage
Unnecessary flashbacks + a faulty change of POV
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar Ramírez, Laura Prepon, Allison Janey, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Tate Taylor
Writer: Paula Hawkins (novel), Erin Cressida Wilson
Cinematographer: Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Editor: Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker
Composer: Danny Elfman
strongest: originality + direction + music + minorities
weakest: message
Cast: Imogen Poots, Michael Shannon, Justin Long, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Nyqvist, Emmanuelle Devos
Director: Matthew M. Ross
Writer: Matthew M. Ross
Cinematographer: Eric Koretz
Editor: Jennifer Lilly, Rebecca Rodriguez
Composer: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
strongest: humor
weakest: script + message
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Patrick Dempsey
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writer: Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Emma Thompson
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Editor: Melanie Ann Oliver
Music: Craig Armstrong
Director: James L. Brooks
Writer: James L. Brooks
Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter
The story doesn’t go anywhere / Holly Hunter is great but the other female roles are excessively stereotyped.
Director: Sean Ellis
Writers: Sean Ellis, Anthony Frewin
Actors: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writers: Mia Hansen-Løve (scenario), Sven Hansen-Løve (scenario)
Actors: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne
Vivre le temps avant qu’il ne tombe dans l’oubli
Un monde aux personnages sans épaisseur
Cast: Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Kevin MacDonald
Screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray
Created by Paul Abbott
Five men and three women are sitting in a room. The men all teach at a university and, consequently, make intelligent and knowledgeable remarks.
As for the three women, the older one is a bigot, the younger one a student whose questions do not show much insight, and the third one, in her thirties, is in love with the leading male personage, which prevents her from saying anything intelligent at all.
A clearly biased gender distribution!
Cast: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley
Director: Richard Schenkman
Writer: Jerome Bixby