By Noémie Bannerot, Staff Writer
Poor Things (2023) : 3 stars
Emma Stone plays a woman brought back to life by a crazy scientist (Victor Frankenstein style), runs off to Spain with a lawyer, and ends up prostituting herself in Paris before coming back to London, where she died and was born again. Gorgeous cinematography, but the movie is quite obviously written by a man, judging from the sheer number of useless sex scenes.
Anatomy of a Fall (2023): 5 stars
One of the best movies I’ve watched this year. The plot is quite simple: Sandra (Sandra Huller) is a German national and she and her French husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) are writers, both intellectual, living with their young visually impaired son, Daniel, in a chalet high up in the picturesque French Alps, near Grenoble. Samuel dies, and a trial begins to decide whether his wife killed him or if it was suicide. The courtroom drama serves as a backdrop for the study of the characters, their psychology and relationships.
Leave the World Behind (2023): 3 stars
This thriller follows a couple and their two children who decide to spend a few days’ vacation in an Airbnb on the north shore of Long Island. However, the owners of the house decide to return home, and although the family is initially distrustful, they decide to live together. Stranger and stranger things happen– boats, planes and cars crash, TV and internet disappear… This is a strange apocalyptic / disaster movie that kept me on the edge of my seat, but the ending stunk.
Drive Away Dolls (2024): 4 stars
This is a lesbian comedy following two women deciding to take a “drive-away” car down to Tallahassee. Little do they know, they got the wrong car, and they find a very valuable briefcase in the trunk. Some hilariously inept criminals start chasing after them. The whole movie is very silly (sometimes bizarre), and although I wouldn’t take my parents to see it, I highly recommend it.
Damsel (2024): 1 star
When will poor Milly Bobby Brown be given a good film to work on? When will she be released from the shackles of Netflix? The story is about a damsel betrayed by her family in law and sacrificed to a dragon. She is wearing perfect 21st century makeup from beginning to end, and even if this movie actually wasn’t bad, I will say that if you’ve seen the trailer, you’ve seen the entire film. Everything about it felt very safe and elementary, and that makes for a rather boring and uneventful experience.