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: script + personages + minorities
weakest: humor
The more you learn about the situation, the more complex it gets, the more distant and evasive truth becomes.
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, Massoumeh Lahidji
strongest: script + music
weakest: structure + humor
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writers: Derek Cianfrance (written for the screen by), M.L. Stedman (novel)
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz
On mothers’ interchangeability, see also Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, 2008)