Female Film Critics 24/375
Loosely based on semi-autobiographical novels and Michael Landon’s ‘70s TV series, Netflix’s reboot of Little House on the Prairie is a gentle, family-friendly glimpse of American frontier life, as the Ingalls family head for Independence, Kansas, in 1869 to stake a claim for their own homestead.
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Writer/director John Curran’s Australian psychological thriller Mercy Road could be euphemistically be described as being too clever for its own good but that presumes the film is in any manner as clever as it is attempting to be. It’s filled with twists, turns, unanswered questions, dark mysteries… all elements that would add up to creating some audience engagement in a better film, but Curran’s work in almost every aspect of the film is sloppy and ill considered.
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