Mutiny Review: Statham Takes the Fight to Sea
The cleanest piece of storytelling in Mutiny involves a Rolex and a ventilation grate. Tibu Campallo gives the watch to...
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James Grashow spends much of Jimmy & The Demons carving figures that seem built to survive him. Cindy Meehl understands the contradiction immediately. Her documentary watches a 79-year-old artist shape demons, apostles, burning souls, and the face of Christ while his own body grows less cooperative. The wood stays still. Jimmy does not. The project consuming him is The Cathedral, a massive commission depicting Jesus carrying a church across his back while grotesque creatures gather below. Grashow speaks about being in life’s “bottom of the ninth,” language made sharper by a previous pulmonary embolism and his private fear that this...

Jake returns to regional Victoria carrying a strange privilege: his dying father finally seems ready to love him, provided he remains someone else. Harvey Zielinski builds Sweet Milk Lake around that wound. Jake has come to see Lee after years of estrangement, yet when Lee mistakes him for his twin brother Sam, Jake lets the error survive. One hesitation becomes an entire borrowed life. The deception matters because Jake has already spent the film being told who he should be. At dinner in Melbourne, his mother deadnames him while Sam pushes the possibility of joining his real estate business. Later,...

Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter route. One day might require an X-ray scan, a blood-type check, and confirmation of a name and employee number. The next might throw most of that away and replace it with a personality test plus a fresh directive from management. The workload stays readable while the variables keep changing. That approach immediately distinguishes Alawar’s Area 51 bureaucracy simulator from the harsher descendants of Papers, Please. You play a security guard stationed beside an elevator descending into a classified underground facility,...

The cleanest piece of storytelling in Mutiny involves a Rolex and a ventilation grate. Tibu Campallo gives the watch to Cole Reed shortly before his murder, and much later Cole dismantles part of it to unscrew a screen after becoming trapped inside the cargo ship carrying him toward the men responsible. The gesture is sentimental, functional, and finished in seconds. That economy tells you what director Jean-François Richet understands about this kind of Jason Statham movie. Cole is a former British soldier and police officer who now handles security for Tibu, a Bangkok shipping magnate preparing to retire and sell...

Six films have taught audiences far too much about a place that was frightening because nobody understood it. The Further once functioned like a dark spiritual blank, a realm barely mapped by the living and populated by entities whose motives felt unknowable. Insidious: Out of the Further inherits a different version. There are classifications, abilities, recurring guides, crossing procedures and supernatural loopholes. Mystery has slowly become infrastructure. That problem hangs over writer-director Jacob Chase’s film from its earliest scenes. The Lambert family, whose story appeared finished in Insidious: The Red Door, is absent. Chase instead follows Gemma (Amelia Eve), a...

Rayna can reconstruct the deaths of celebrated adventurers like an accountant replaying a bad quarter. Her job at Heroes Unite Life Group is to prove that fallen heroes caused their own demise, giving the company grounds to reject insurance payouts. It is an absurd foundation for a fantasy RPG, yet Ledgerbound commits to the bureaucracy with admirable discipline. The problem arrives when the Regulators, the Queendom’s strongest heroes and some of HULG’s most heavily insured clients, are killed by the invading Vacari. Rayna runs their battle through every scenario she can devise and still cannot demonstrate negligence. A trip to...
The cleanest piece of storytelling in Mutiny involves a Rolex and a ventilation grate. Tibu Campallo gives the watch to...
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Read moreJames Grashow spends much of Jimmy & The Demons carving figures that seem built to survive him. Cindy Meehl understands the contradiction immediately. Her documentary watches a 79-year-old artist shape...
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Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter route. One day might require an X-ray scan, a blood-type...
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Six films have taught audiences far too much about a place that was frightening because nobody understood it. The Further once functioned like a dark spiritual blank, a realm barely...
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Checkpoint games usually become harder by asking you to remember increasingly ridiculous quantities of information. Security 51 takes a smarter...
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