Strong images, weak personages
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mario Casas, Adriana Barraza, Kate del Castillo, Cote de Pablo, Bob Gunton Director: Patricia Riggen
Screenplay: José Rivera, Mikko Alanne
Composer: James Horner
Editor: Michael Tronick
Cinematographer: Checco Varese
Cast: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Atom Egoyan Based On The Novel by Russell Banks
Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
Editing: Susan Shipton
Cast: Callum Turner, Grace Van Patten, Michal Vondel, Mike Birbiglia
Director: Adam Leon
Writer: Adam Leon; (story by) Adam Leon, Jamund Washington
Cinematographer: Ashley Connor
Editor: Morgan Faust, Sara Shaw
Composer: Nicholas Britell
The script hesitates between a few genres (horror, thriller) before opting for a bully-victim relationship that loses much of its dramatic content along the way. An identical indecision hovers over who is the main character of the movie: Simon (Jason Bateman)? Robyn (Rebecca Hall)? Gordo (Joel Edgerton)?
Cast: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, David Denman, Beau Knapp, Allison Tolman, P. J. Byrne, Busy Philipps, Wendell Pierce, Katie Aselton
Director: Joel Edgerton
Writer: Joel Edgerton
Director of Photography: Eduard Grau
All the men in her life disappoint her… but in the end, the movie succeeds in glorifying patriarchism. What a disappointment!
Cast: Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Bayer, Colin O’Donoghue, Jason Ritter, William Moseley, Poorna Jagannathan, Cornelia Guest, Joel Michaely
Director: Susan Johnson
Writer: Kara Holden, based on the novel by Caren Lissner
Cinematographer: Gonzalo Amat
Editor: Phillip J. Bartell
Composer: Michael Penn
At the end of the movie, a Chinese woman says that the Japanese are always in a hurry to die. But dying is not difficult, it’s for the cowards. It’s living that is difficult.
Cast: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Hajime Takaiwa, Taijirô Tamura (story)
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka
Editing: Akira Suzuki
Good music score, some intelligent dialogues, original story but annoying mistakes in the script and no humor
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Glenn Close, Sennia Nanua, Anamaria Marinca, Fisayo Akinade, Anthony Welsh, Dominique Tipper, Eli Lane
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Mike Carey
Cinematographer: Simon Dennis
Editor: Matthew Cannings
Composer: Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Excellent direction and images
Cast: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Pam Ferris
Directed: Alfonso Cuaron
Written: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton
Music: John Tavener
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki
Editing: Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez
Excellent humor, weak message
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ed Skrein, Gina Carano
Director: Tim Miller
Writer (character): Rob Liefeld, Fabian Nicieza
Writer: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Cinematographer: Ken Seng
Editor: Julian Clarke
Composer: Junkie XL
Excellent direction, weak on minorities
Cast: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Writer: Patrick Ness, based upon the novel written by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
Cinematographer: Oscar Faura
Editor: Jaume Marti, Bernat Vilaplana
Composer: Fernando Velázquez