Frank (Michael Fassbender), the visionary lead singer in an unsung alt-rock band, spends his entire life hiding beneath piñata headgear that brings to mind a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru. His parents later confess their adult son suffers from mental illness. Really? Forrest Gump for hipsters, this huggable, Sundance-sanctioned babble joins the ever-stretching …
A moody delight. Domhnall Gleeson brings his uncanny talent for communicating great storms of interior feeling through an expression almost entirely devoid of affect to Lenny Abrahamson’s post-World War II ghost story about the dangers of noblesse oblige. He plays Faraday, a doctor called to the home of the local …
A cowardly movie about brave people. Part one is heartrendingly human, bordering on wise: a considered portrait of motherly love under extreme duress. To wit: Ma (Brie Larson) is both captive and sexual slave to a dim Midwestern monster, trapped in a soundproofed shed with a son (Jacob Tremblay) who …