Female Film Critics 24/375
Symptoms of PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – permeate Heart of the Beast, a treacherous survival story about a military veteran and his combat dog in Alaska’s wilderness. Yet it’s also a love story about the devotion between a man and his loyal canine companion, joining classics like Rin Tin Tin, Old Yeller and Lassie.
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Brad Pitt goes through the wringer in the survival drama Heart of the Beast, but his canine co-star runs off
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While Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 is a compelling courtroom drama, the even bigger mystery is why Warner Bros. only briefly released it in 50 theaters before it began streaming exclusively on HBO Max. Free-lance writer Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) is summoned to jury duty in Savannah, Georgia on a murder case. The trial begins. After a night of drinking and arguing with her boyfriend, James Sythe (Gabriel Basso), Kendall Carter (Francesca Eastwood) leaves the roadside bar in a rainstorm. Witnesses saw them fighting and remember him chasing her out to the parking lot. Later, her corpse is found on rocks beneath a nearby bridge. Recovering alcoholic Justin is confused about the details of his own automobile accident that same night and confesses to his AA sponsor (Kiefer Sutherland) that he perhaps knows more than he’d like to admit.
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Coinciding with the recent revelation of UFO reports, this frightening sci-fi fantasy imagines what might happen if – today – we learned about a future alien invasion and, perhaps, had the power to prevent it.
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Opening Oct. 10, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is Whiplash, which stars Miles Teller as an aspiring drummer whose passion for music is put to the test when he enrolls in a prestigious New York academy and comes up against a sadistic tutor (JK Simmons). It’s taken just a year for writer/director Damien Chazelle to adapt his Sundance winning short into a feature, and the result is a passionate, inspiring look at the true cost of artistic ambition. Read on…
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