TaHis Oscars are behind us and the summer movie season has not yet been full of us: spring is always a point where some of the best new films of the year are starting to appear. Often these films are easy to enjoy – and thank God for it. But this particular spring season has been particularly strong, bringing us at least two pictures that we are still talking about at the end of the year. Here are the top five films that were released in April.
Shadows
Thrillerina David Cronenberg's Shadows Isn't it a very good movie: the plot mechanics feels like a after -effect that is eventually related to the crazy shoulder. As I recently watched the movie again at the New York Theater, I heard a couple of young cronendud by accidentally laughing at how badly they thought it was. But this mysterious, delicate picture story of grief and almost recovery-is nothing that is not easy to shake. Vincent Cassel denotes as a Karsh, a man who mourns his wife's rather recent loss – he played in several dream sequences of Diane Kruger. Karsh has invented a special cover that allows resident to witness the decay of the dead – five physical intimacy to the grave; He has also made this technology available to others by opening a cemetery equipped with many of these special -coated graves. (There is also a chic, a cutting -edge restaurant on site, evil Cronenburgian touch.) One night a cemetery is looted; The graves are tilted, their Wi-Fi connections are prohibited. Karsh's sister (also played by Diane Kruger) and the former brother (Guy Pearce) are trying to help him unravel who can do such a thing and why. In the meantime, Karsh is struggling to find his way back to life. Shadows' The real center is the Kassel performance. He translates grief for restless electricity; You may virtually feel that it vibrates through its vibrant frame.
Warfare
To make a big war movie, you don't have to fight in the war: though Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, or Stanley Kubrick, what they made, the movies they made about the horrors of the battle period. But you can say that the stakes are higher than the filmmaker who has been to hell and back plans to express the truth of his experience. Iraqi war veteran Ray Mendoza has put together Civil war and Former Machina Director Alex Garland to do The war What dramatizes the day in 2006, the Mendoza Navy, there, entered an apartment building in Ramad Province, Iraq, which is a treacherous monitoring mission. In only a few hours, Al-Qaeda's troops had thrown a grenade in the middle, injuring two seals, one of them sniper and Medic Elliott Miller (played in Cosmo Jarvis). Miller was even more seriously wounded with another seal (Joseph Quinn) when Ied exploded outside the building as they were evacuated. Mendoza and others who participated in the mission (played by a group of fine young actors, including d'Alavairoh Woon-A-Tai, Charles Melton and Will Poulter) created the story of the memories of the day. Miller does not remember the events of the day at all, and Mendoza has said that he wanted the film to be a “lively snapshot” – a way to respect everything he lived but cannot remember. WarfareBeautifully crafted, tells the harassing story of rescuing men in real time. If the movie can be elegant and brutal at once, it is. [Read the full review.]
Friend
Sigrid Nunez's 2018 novel Friend It is a proud, sentimental novel about Sõprus, the selfish nature of writing, and loving the animal, not always in the way we expect. The adaptation of Scott McGehee and David Siegel's films cannot accurately capture the subtleties of the book – it is alone, it still acts as a lively and thoughtful reflection on how the death of a loved one can make it difficult, not to simplify our feelings for this person. This is, of course, a movie about what it means to love the animal: Naomi Watts stars as a writer and academic, living in a tiny, rent -controlled manhattan apartment that inherits the dog's parent's lover (Bill Murray). But it's not just a dog; This is a noble giant, a great Danish known as Apollo. To. This is the main dramatic support A friend, Although in the end the story is actually how a dog is not sure that you want a dog without wanting to live.
Sinful
What makes Ryan Coogler's extraordinary horror dissolution Sinners, 1932 Mississippi Delta, which is so effective – so cool, so hypnotic and time – so blatantly funny – is how it gives it to the mystery never want to review. Michael B. Jordan plays a twin brother, smoke and a stack, returning to his hometown ban in Chicago. Rinse with cash and with booze cases, they hope to open the Juke joint that evening. They recruit their cousin Blues Prodigy Sammie (Miles Caton) to provide entertainment, and within hours of opening, this place is a difficult hit – up to Jack O'Connell's scary Remmick -led Vampire Hillbilly musician trio, appearing on a door that begs the best politician. Sinful is one of the big films of today's vampires, mining the legend of the Igical outsiders who long to belong, but whose silky promises are rooted. However, most of the time Sinful It is alive for the mystery of music: five centuries seemed to hear and know music differently until somehow heard sounds, connecting and making fogs into a kind of phonetic future world that is still open today. Sinful is gory, seductive, pathetic. But there is something cumbersome in it, as if its characters have thrown the opportunity for freedom, unity and happiness, which is still unavailable almost 100 years later. [Read the full review.]
One to one: John & Yoko
Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards' documentary is pursuing an eventful year in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who moved from his English real estate to a small apartment in the Greenwich village of New York in 1972. They were looking for communication with other artists and radicals; They also looked at a batch From television, immersion, immaogenetically into modern American life with almost naive enthusiasm, tuning, for example Mary Tyler Moore Show like everyone else. Then the television was different again, and in this illuminating, detailed document important and important for the cultural association of the people, Macdonald and Rice-Edwards show how television, as well as New York vitality, Lennon and Ono, belonged to artists and activists. The film has anchors in August 1972 for one concert, which was organized in response to Geraldo Rivera's truly shocking exposition of the Willowbrook institution, where children with disabilities were horribly abused and abused. Their anger after this cruelty came to them through a small television that grabbed their economically-sized Bank Street apartment, which was re-established in the film to act. If nothing else, One to one It reminds us of one of the most serious threats in the modern world: the fact that we are anesthetized for people.
