Sicario is deeply unsettling in a way that few films are. A grisly crime thriller where most of the violence occurs just off-camera, it’s driven more by atmosphere than story, and its tone is implacable and hypnotic. It’s a two-hour dreamfilm — nay, a nightmare film — where logic is irrelevant, where everyone but the main character is sociopathic, where death’s scythe lingers … [Read more...]
Unsettling thriller ‘The Silence’ is impressive directorial debut
There’s something to be said for a well-done, straightforward thriller – the kind that doesn’t treat its audience like Silly Putty to be shaped and reshaped on a twisty roller coaster. Danny Boyle’s dreadful, masturbatory Trance contains a narrative puzzle so dense and disconnected that its logic doesn’t hold up to the most generous scrutiny. But, as simple marionettes in … [Read more...]