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Free State of Jones is a rarer thing: a film that tries to strike sparks of political insight from a well-worn genre template." [ 31 ] The New Yorker film critic Richard Brody gave it a positive review, saying, "It's tempting to shunt Free State of Jones into the familiar genre of the white-savior tale, but Newton Knight appears as something ...
The film rose to the third rank on TV Time's chart in the final week of its availability. [195] [151] It was the ninth-most-streamed-film of 2021 according to the service. [196] By March 20, the film was streamed in 5.3 million households in the US, including 996,000 since the Oscar nomination announcements on February 8. [197]
The Brutalist is a 2024 epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold. [7] It stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy client changes his life.
Free Guy is a 2021 American contemporary fantasy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds , Jodie Comer , Lil Rel Howery , Utkarsh Ambudkar , Joe Keery , and Taika Waititi .
The Menu is a 2022 American black comedy horror [4] film written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy and directed by Mark Mylod.It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, and John Leguizamo.
The Shack is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stuart Hazeldine and written by John Fusco, Andrew Lanham and Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by William P. Young. [4] The film stars Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Graham Greene, Radha Mitchell, Alice Braga, Sumire Matsubara, Aviv Alush, and Tim McGraw.
The conspiracy underlying the plot of the film is loosely based on the Business Plot, a conspiracy to oust President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. De Niro's character, Gil Dillenbeck, is based on General Smedley Butler , who testified before the McCormack–Dickstein committee in 1934 regarding the conspiracy. [ 23 ]
Possum is a 2018 British psychological horror film written and directed by Matthew Holness in his feature film debut, starring Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong.It centres on a disgraced children's puppeteer who returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront trauma he suffered there.