Female Film Critics 24/375
Writer-director Dee Rees‘ groundbreaking 2017 Oscar-nominated drama Mudbound is getting a new Blu-ray and DVD release through The Criterion Collection. Although it didn’t win any Oscars, Mudbound achieved multiple breakthrough nominations for the 90th Academy Awards.
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Sometimes Oscar-winners like Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) make massive miscalculations like “The Unforgivable. Making her English-language debut, German director Nora Fingscheidt works from an adaptation to try to tell this bleak ‘second chances’ redemption tale. But the pacing is turgid, lacking urgency, and Sandra Bullock never manages to make grimly determined Ruth even vaguely likable. The concluding plot twist turns out to be too little too late.
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Set in February, 1942, this W.W.II saga revolves around U.S. Naval Cmdr. Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks) whose first command position is aboard the USS Keeling – codename Greyhound – leading a convoy of 37 Allied ships across the treacherous North Atlantic to Liverpool, England.
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Bull, the powerful, poetic debut feature from writer-director Annie Silverstein, is rooted in neorealist tradition. The film’s use of nonprofessionals adds authenticity and atmospheric detail to this fascinating look at the subculture of bull riding among black cowboys in rural Texas.
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Set in a pin-dot Texas town, Annie Silverstein’s feature debut is an absorbing, carefully observed character study of a tentative relationship that blossoms into an undeniable bond between a youngster in desperate need of a positive parental figure and an oldster who needs someone to focus on — beyond his beat-up self.
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