'Fallout' does a great job of fooling you into thinking it's actually good. It does a great job of recreating the look of the game, but it is a tangled mess of stories and hollow moments.
While it doesn’t have the most original premise, 'Heel' goes a long way, thanks to its actors. It’s a thriller that takes a grounded approach to its story of a family keeping a teenager captive in their home.
Anyone paying serious attention to the Academy Awards knows that – despite the hype and pretension – Oscars don’t always land in the right hands. Rather, variables as diverse as marketing and politics factor into the outcomes.
In the post-COVID landscape, where theatrical attendance has changed dramatically, Dwayne Johnson's once-guaranteed success has waned. Still uber-famous, still larger than life, and still able to draw a bigger audience than most, Johnson’s last five years have been marked by career missteps, bad headlines, and dwindling box-office returns.
The final film I saw was, by far, the standout of the festival. Sundance has built a reputation for launching powerful documentaries, and this year Poh Is Teng’s American Doctor proved triumphant. The film follows three American doctors who enter Gaza and find themselves caught between medicine and politics as they confront media narratives that minimize the genocide carried out by Israeli forces.