The Power of the Dog leaves a mark
Movie review: The Power of the Dog
Jesse Plemons and Benedict Cumberbatch flirt with a cowboy take on Cain and Abel in Jane Campion's dusty, and decidedly lusty, moral fable
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Power of the Dog (new on Netflix/ select theatrical) - Remember Jane Campion's grand eclat called The Piano back in 1993? It hit some heavy chords with bloody stumps. The movie was as beautiful as it was horrific, and The Power of the Dog is probably the closest Campion has come to matching the throbbing genius of her breakout feature. Based on the 1967 novel by Tom Savage, in addition to the Bible verse Psalm 22:20, The Power of the Dog focuses on two brothers trying to make a life for themselves as ranchers in 1920s Montana. They are the sons of city folk with money, so their life on the ranch has been one that demanded a hands-on education. And they got it, thanks to a cowboy who we only as a ghost named Bronco Henry -- and he haunts the whole film via Benedict Cumberbatch. Deliver my ...
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Movie Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once Is All That
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Stephen McHattie is a man with a horn in Bruce McDonald’s Dreamland
Movies: Interview with Canadian director Bruce McDonald
McDonald’s latest film features a drug-addicted trumpet player and a jaundiced hitman on a collision course in the middle of Europe. “It’s about the journeyman and the artist,” says the director. He might as well have been talking about McHattie himself -- the Canadian character actor who sits at the heart of this “one-man two-hander.”
22 July offers timely reminder of old horror, fresh fears
Movie Review: 22 July - New on Netflix
Paul Greengrass’s restrained vérité treatment of the July 22 massacre at a Norwegian kids camp lassos truth of tragedy by showing us the banal face of evil and the chilling effect of fear.
