The Review at the End of the Universe
Guillermo Del Toro delivers an unconventional love story between a mute and a mysterious sea creature in The Shape of Water. This film immediately stands out as being somewhat daring because it has a mute protagonist. There’s a skill to presenting a character who never says a word and making them engaging to a wide audience….
A man faces various challenges when trying to raise his genius level niece in Marc Webb’s Gifted. The story primarily focuses on Frank (Chris Evans and his niece Mary (McKenna Grace) with the core relationship being their combination of a father/daughter and an uncle/niece bond. This immediately stands out as being somewhat unique as Frank’s…
Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures tells the vastly under-represented story of the team of African-American women mathematicians who were vital to the early days of the United States space program. Typically biopics about the space program focus on the astronauts involved so right away this story stands out as something different. In some ways it’s baffling…
Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush’ Zootopia -or Zootropolis if you’re in the UK- follows plucky idealistic young Rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) as she tries to be taken seriously in a world that constantly underestimates her. Zootopia/Zootropolis is a more complicated film than it seems on the surface. From the beginning it looks like…
Gabriele Muccino’s Fathers and Daughters is almost two films in one. One of them is the story of a man trying to raise his daughter the right way as his health fails and the other tells the tale of a woman struggling to forge meaningful relationships in her life. The biggest problem with the film…
