B EST ACTOR Mr. Day-Lewis is back from retirement and he looks astonishing in Anemone 's trailer (what seems to be a visceral family drama) - and there's no way to not to predict him... it's the return of the king. Fresh from last year's Oscar nomination, Timothée Chalamet keeps getting prestige project after prestige project and he's the lead in Josh Safdie's feature film solo effort ( Marty Supreme ), which promises to be a charismatic character in a movie that looks like a major Oscar player (and Mr. Chalamet not only is talented, but he has momentum). Since I predict Rental Family to be Searchlight's big play at the Oscar game (and maybe even TIFF's winner), Brendan Fraser emerges as a natural contender here - not only he is a recent Oscar winner in this category (which start some kind of career renaissance for him), but his performance also looks quite moving (and he's blessed with the gift of on-screen empathy). Since Neon seems to not hold ...
Genre: Drama; Horror; Thriller Director: Zach Cregger Writer: Zach Cregger Starring: Julia Garner , Josh Brolin , Alden Ehrenreich , Austin Abrams , Cary Christopher , Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan A movie that reaches cinematic heights during its two first acts to then "loose" itself maybe too much for its conclusion with a tonal shift that didn't work for me, but Weapons works mostly because of an amazing ensemble cast and a sense of mystery and intrigue that are instiled early on just as the movie begins. A superior film than Cregger's previous effort Barbarian , but it just needed a maestro finale for me after what was a great cinematic symphony for me. The movie saves no time presenting the central conflict: the disappearance of 17 children, all from the same teacher's class, and there's a whole community not only looking for them but also looking for someone to blame for it. Still, it is a nonlinear narrative, which might be tricky when not execu...