In The Batman, the Caped Crusader returns for one of his most epic, ambitious, and bleak cinematic outings yet! With a fresh angle that eschews redundancy, writer/director Matt Reeves gives the “World’s Greatest Detective” the David Fincher treatment, delivering a gritty operatic noir that rivals the very best the franchise has to offer.
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Christopher Nolan’s latest, Tenet (or more appropriately TeneT), is a sleek, yet convoluted spy thriller full of mind-melting action. Somewhat of a cross between Memento and Inception on steroids (if that’s your kink), Tenet is a definite cinematic spectacle, but it’s one that buckles hard under the weight of its own gimmick.
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High Life is the first English-language feature from French writer/director Claire Denis, which she co-wrote with her long-time collaborators Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox, and it’s no more accessible than her previous foreign-language features, but brilliant nonetheless. It’s a wonderfully stylized challenge that defies the traditional typifications of the genre, taking the viewer down a cerebral sci-fi path that has only been trampled on by contemplative cinema and art film mainstays like Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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