Female Film Critics 24/375
The setup for All the Old Knives works well. After Chechen terrorist Ilyas Shushani’s capture, he reveals that a CIA mole in their Vienna station contributed to the death of one hundred passengers, crew, and hijackers eight years earlier. This alarming news prompts Chief Victor Wallinger (Laurence Fishburne) to reopen this Flight 127 case. For those of us who embrace the cloak-and-dagger genre, it’s a worthy entry.
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Taking its cue from Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game, it depicts wealthy, heavily armed elites exercising their Second Amendment right against a dozen drugged/kidnapped/gagged victims, stalking them as sport on a private game reserve in Croatia.
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The Banker powerfully presents 1950s racism. In this truth-based narrative, blatant racism is, refreshingly, never sugar coated, always directly addressed, and leads to a question put to to the US Senate. “Why is it so important to you to exclude an entire race of people from the American dream?”
Read moreDanish director Thomas Vinterberg’s genteel adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic 19th century novel is beautiful to look at – filmed
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