The Furious Review: Kenji Tanigaki Builds a Brutal Action Machine
The Furious begins “somewhere in Southeast Asia,” which sounds evasive until the film starts moving and the choice begins to...
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The Furious begins “somewhere in Southeast Asia,” which sounds evasive until the film starts moving and the choice begins to feel deliberate. Kenji Tanigaki’s martial arts thriller is less interested in geography as a pin on a map than geography as a collision point: Chinese wushu, Indonesian screen combat, Thai action cinema, Hong Kong stunt craft, Japanese choreography, and the global afterlife of The Raid all thrown into one bruised arena. The city remains unnamed because the bodies name it for us. The story is brutally simple. Wang Wei, a mute handyman played by Xie Miao, loses his daughter Rainy...

The Death of Robin Hood wants to be about truth. It is actually about the impossibility of escaping a story once the story has decided to eat you (stay with me here). Michael Sarnoski's third feature takes its cue from A Gest of Robyn Hode, a 17th-century ballad whose final section deposits the aging outlaw at a priory for treatment, where he dies. Sarnoski inverts the betrayal (here the prioress heals) and keeps the death and the intellectual problem beneath it: what does a legend do with itself when it knows the legend is false? The film is set in...

Seekers of Infinite Love treats family as a room with no exits, then puts that room on wheels. Victoria Strouse’s directorial debut is a family comedy-drama shaped by panic, resentment, love, and the grim comedy of forced proximity. The Bachman siblings learn that Scarlett has joined a Kentucky cult led by the magnetic Hal, and their rescue plan soon gathers its own absurd ritual logic. Kayla, a novelist with anxiety and claustrophobia, cannot handle flying. Zach, the lawyer brother, wants procedure where none exists. Wes brings charm, damage, and the faint sense that any plan involving him may require medical...

In Sender, the doorstep becomes a confession booth, a wound, and a trap. Russell Goldman expands his short film Return to Sender into a feature debut that treats online shopping with the moral gravity of a haunting. The monster is not hiding in the basement. It comes with tracking updates, bright branding, and a customer-service voice trained to sound harmless. Britt Lower plays Julia, a newly sober woman who has lost her job and moved into a rental home that feels less like shelter than temporary containment. Her attempt at renewal is interrupted by unsolicited packages from Smirk, an Amazon-like...

Crushed In Time takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, drops them into a point-and-click adventure, then gleefully breaks the machinery around them. Draw Me A Pixel frames the game as a launch-day disaster at a glossy developer office, where a fictional Holmes game is being review bombed after an NPC mysteriously disappears. The player is pulled through a monitor and into the malfunctioning project, becoming the unseen force trying to push this collapsing digital mystery back into shape. The hook starts small. Watson receives a letter from Emma, except the letter refuses to behave like paper should. It sticks...

Playing POTUS studies a peculiar American ritual: the conversion of presidents into punchlines, then punchlines into public memory. Josh Greenbaum’s 92-minute documentary, based on Peter Funt’s nonfiction book, tracks comic portrayals of U.S. presidents and presidential hopefuls from Vaughn Meader’s John F. Kennedy routine to the age of Trump sketches, viral clips, and political outrage cycles. The film is funny, fast, and stacked with people who know how to turn a mannerism into a national shorthand. Dana Carvey, Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Kate McKinnon, Alec Baldwin, Chevy Chase, Keegan-Michael Key, and others treat impersonation as a craft, a burden, and...
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Read moreThe Furious begins “somewhere in Southeast Asia,” which sounds evasive until the film starts moving and the choice begins to feel deliberate. Kenji Tanigaki’s martial arts thriller is less interested...
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Seekers of Infinite Love treats family as a room with no exits, then puts that room on wheels. Victoria Strouse’s directorial debut is a family comedy-drama shaped by panic, resentment,...
In Sender, the doorstep becomes a confession booth, a wound, and a trap. Russell Goldman expands his short film Return to Sender into a feature debut that treats online shopping...
Crushed In Time takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, drops them into a point-and-click adventure, then gleefully breaks the machinery around them. Draw Me A Pixel frames the game...
Crushed In Time takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, drops them into a point-and-click adventure, then gleefully breaks the...
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