A Profound Journey
Est. 1995
Travel, technology, reviews, projects and diary — newest first.
Matt Reeves takes the rebooted apes somewhere most blockbuster sequels never go, into a sombre tribal war story with Andy Serkis's Caesar at its centre. It is bigger than its predecessor and, against the odds, sadder. 8.5/10.
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Bong Joon-ho takes his class war onto a frozen train that never stops, and turns a single corridor into one of the strangest, most committed dystopias of recent years. 8/10.
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Doug Liman takes a Japanese light novel, a video-game premise and a movie star willing to die on camera a hundred times, and turns them into the sharpest summer science fiction in years. 8/10.
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Gareth Evans answers a lean siege thriller with a sprawling crime epic, and the fights are somehow even better. The story strains at the seams; the craft does not. 8.5/10.
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Marvel hands its most straight-arrow hero to a paranoid 1970s conspiracy thriller, and the gamble pays off handsomely. The best film the studio has made so far. 8.5/10.
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Spike Jonze imagines a man who falls in love with his operating system and, against every instinct, makes you believe it. A soft, plausible near future and one of the most humane films ever made about technology. 8/10.
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The second Hunger Games hands the franchise to a new director and comes back sharper, angrier and more political than the first. A rare sequel that improves on the original. 8.5/10.
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Alfonso Cuarón strands Sandra Bullock in orbit and builds ninety minutes of pure tension out of silence, vacuum and falling debris. As a piece of cinema engineering it is close to flawless, though the story underneath is thin. 8/10.
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Paul Greengrass turns a real 2009 hijacking into a procedural thriller that screws the tension tighter for two hours, then lets Tom Hanks fall apart in the last five minutes. 8.5/10.
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Denis Villeneuve's first English-language film is a long, grim abduction thriller carried by Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Roger Deakins. Punishing to sit through, hard to shake off. 8.5/10.
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