CARD COUNTER (2021)
“pervasive existential angst and soul consuming stalk”
Read MoreWITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.
“pervasive existential angst and soul consuming stalk”
Read More“revels in its insanity and blazes its own trail into an inexplicable immensity”
Read More“This is hackneyed and taxing”
Read More“Lean, anxious, and gripping.”
Read More“we get the idea of a Grizzly Adams John Wick, dive into “food workers Fight Club”, but mostly get a beaten and bloody The Limey in the cutthroat Portlandia food world”
Read More“a grotesque and unsavory dalliance”
Read More“Greeny is a reverse hourglass film; the beginning and ending are generally average and somewhat dumb, but the middle is robust, gritty, and stirring.”
Read More“pulse pounding, relatable, and darkly fun”
Read More“Jack Ryan 2.0, who’s more angsty and Wickian/Jack Reacher-ey...I guess”
Read More“Trying to recapture the gritty and disturbed fortitude of 90s Denzel Washington crime thrillers, but failing”
Read More“a swim through the possibilities is better than the film’s sink to the water logged bottom”
Read More“stripped down terror chase”
Read More“subtle cryptic spirit of dourness that torments the film”
Read More“Her terror and struggle is palpable”
Read More“Possessor strikes me as the kind of understated brilliance that will be looked back upon as staggering and seminal”
Read More“whole thing is wildly “WTF?!”, but conceptually it was vaguely interesting”
Read More“evocative “retro fantastique”, but with a dour european oppression”
Read More“A modern young June Cleaver lost in the swallowing void of upper crust emptiness”
Read More“ballsy violent expressionism”
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