The key roles given to women do not redeem the awful script and mediocre direction / The original idea deserves a better treatment
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Gary Oldman
Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Allan Loeb
Writer (story): Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Editor: David Moritz
Composer: Andrew Lockington
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Michael Pitt, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche
Director: Rupert Sanders
Based on the comic ‘The Ghost in the Shell’ by Masamune Shirow
Writer: Jamie Moss, William Wheeler
Cinematographer: Jess Hall
Editor: Billy Rich, Neil Smith
Composer: Lorne Balfe
A stupid script with wothless secondary personages and meaningless violence.
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Agam Darshi, Hannah Cheramy
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Writer: Nacho Vigalondo
Cinematographer: Eric Kress
Editor: Ben Baudhuin, Luke Doolan
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
Strong direction, images and dialogues
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Blanche Baker, Traci Lind
Directed: Volker Schlondorff
Screenplay: Harold Pinter; based On The Novel by Margaret Atwood
Photographed: Igor Luther
Edited: David Ray
Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto
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
Despite the fact that the main role was given to a woman, it is still a strongly paternalistic movie.
Cast: Felicity Jones, Mads Mikkelsen, Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy, John Knoll, Gary Whitta
based on the characters created by George Lucas
Cinematographer: Greig Fraser
Editor: John Gilroy, Colin Goudie, Jabez Olssen
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Eric Heisserer (screenplay), Ted Chiang (based on the story “Story of Your Life” written by)
Actors: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
“The center of the film remains our transmutation of sympathy for a grieving mother into sympathy for a woman who knows she will be grieving for a child yet unborn, and yet embraces her destiny.”
[When is Now? By David Bordwell in Observations on film art, Wednesday | November 23, 2016. http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2016/11/23/arrival-when-is-now/]
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain