Steve McQueen made the Oscar-winning film ’12 Years a Slave,’ but did not win one for directing it. He is, however, the first Black filmmaker to win Best Picture. ‘Small Axe,’ an…
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There’s a kind of world-weariness attached to the characters of crime dramas set in Boston, Massachusetts. Although the characters survive through unlawful means, there’s no attempt to turn them into brave outlaws.…
From the director of All Is Lost & A Most Violent Year, Triple Frontier presents J.C. Chandor tackling yet another different genre, this time an action heist thriller, to further widen his…
Mexican film-maker Alonso Ruizpalacios’ debut feature Gueros (2014) portrayed the disintegration of a society and the ennui of suburban life through the perspective of carefree, rebellious youngsters. That film was set in…
Steve McQueen is the second film-maker this year whose inadequacy to handle the larger narrative canvas of a conventional Hollywood genre is conspicuous, first being Damien Chazelle. The crucial supporting characters feel under-written…
Logan Lucky [2017]: A Brisk Old-School Heist Flick Steven Soderbergh may not have the staging abilities of Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher or Christopher Nolan, but he is one of the…