Tag Archives: Joel Edgerton

Review in Brief: The King (2019)

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

There’s a fine balance between under-acting and over-acting and THE KING doesn’t always manage to strike it. They cram every hot English-speaking character actor in there somewhere, with Joel Edgerton as a tragicomic Falstaff, Ben Mendelsohn a mad king, Sean … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: It Comes at Night (2017)

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

This would make one hell of a double-feature with THE SURVIVALIST. Bleak, slow-burning and intense both, but IT COMES AT NIGHT is far more tricksy and ambiguous a thing. Nightmares, visions, hallucinations – whatever they’re supposed to be – bleed … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Bright (2017)

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

“Only a Bright can control the power of the wand”. That’s really how BRIGHT opens. Then we see “Curse the police” on a wall. Whatever its intention, Bright comes across as a massive piss-take of Black Lives Matter. Just in … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Loving (2016)

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

LOVING is glacial in pacing, almost apologetically low-key and the thick-as-treacle accents can be just as tricky to translate as in writer-director Jeff Nichols’ other work. The two grounded performances at its heart (career bests from both Joel Edgerton and … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Jane Got a Gun (2016)

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

JANE GOT A GUN is a boring movie. That’s not a comment on shootouts being few and far between – UNFORGIVEN and THE HOMESMAN took their time, but it got deep into what made their characters. Here we have Natalie … Continue reading →

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Review: Midnight Special (2016)

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Jeff Nichols has followed up doom-laden psychological horror TAKE SHELTER and big-hearted fable MUD with MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, his biggest film to date. While there’s plenty in it to talk about, it’s admittedly far wonkier than what has come before. A … Continue reading →

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Review: Black Mass (2015)

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

BLACK MASS is a frustrating beast. I’d recommend you just watch THE DEPARTED again instead as it’s a much better Boston gangsters and informants movie  that was partly based on Whitey Bulger’s story anyway. In the 1970s and 1980s, few … Continue reading →

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