Female Film Critics 24/375
A 1991 Toyota Camry is easy to dismiss, much like its owner in Tow, a star-studded David and Goliath story about homelessness that unfortunately spins its wheels in spots. Based on a true story, the film sees Amanda (Rose Byrne, Physical) living out of the car in Seattle while she hunts for a job as a veterinary technician. During one of her job interviews, someone steals the Toyota, which winds up on a private towing lot.
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Zoë Kravitz has her finger on the pulse with some extremely pertinent contemporary ideas and is using genre cinema to explore them. The film is competently directed with some excellent set pieces but lacks a final polish. However, better an imperfect film swinging with big ideas and sometimes misses than a safe movie with limited ideas. Blink Twice is chilling, turning all too real daily concerns women face into a fight some men enjoy a little too much. Keep an eye on Zoë Kravitz, one day she’s going to blow you away.
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Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut with Blink Twice, a film which she also wrote. It stars her fiancé, Channing Tatum, as tech billionaire Slater King. The megalomaniac invites a group of men and a bevy of beautiful women to vacation on his Love Island one Midsommar day, but the ladies soon realize THEY are on The Menu and they can’t Get Out.
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In Red Rocket writer/director Sean Baker dares us to spend two hours in a world few would want to inhabit. For this film is a clear-eyed, straightforward immersion in the confrontational, deceitful behavior of the main character Mikey Saber whose murky past gets revealed directly and indirectly through conversations.
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