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Post by wilcinema on Jan 29, 2018 11:33:17 GMT
This sounds like an exciting Sundance year.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jan 30, 2018 14:01:01 GMT
thomasjerome , bob-coppola Collette has been receiving excellent reviews for HEREDITARY (2018) : The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney (January 24, 2018)Arguably the most effective domestic horror chiller since The Conjuring and The Babadook, this A24 release should hit discerning genre fans right where they live. Aster’s ability to modernize his obvious reverence for the expert mood modulation, visual command and layered characterizations that defined sophisticated horror of the 1960s and ’70s catapults the writer-director into the vanguard of contemporary horror auteurs. The film’s superb cast, led by an astonishingly good Toni Collette, represents another strong draw. Variety, Owen Gleiberman (January 24, 2018)Collette’s performance is staggering. She plays Annie as a woman who begins to wear her buried rage and guilt on the outside. It pours out of her, as if she were “possessed,” and indeed she is — but by what, or whom? The fear and violence that secretly dominate her express the spirits that came before her, incarnated by no one but herself. Vulture, Kyle Buchanan (January 24, 2018)Once Hereditary finally shows its cards, Aster goes full-throttle and serves up some memorably scary images and unnerving sound motifs that had the audience yelping. The back half is where Collette really pulls the stops out, and it’s a pleasure to watch her get such a full-fledged leading-actress showcase, even though the poor woman goes through hell. Screen Daily, Tim Grierson (January 25, 2018)Collette is asked to shoulder a great deal as the film’s main character. It’s typical for the lead in a horror movie to react to seismic shocks and deliver ear-splitting screams, but Aster has given her a role which is impressively nuanced. Hereditary paints a portrait of a woman who has lived her life feeling cursed — she’s fearful that, for some reason, she deserves the woes that have visited her family. Exactly why she holds onto this belief is part of the delicate character development that Hereditary finesses into a story that gets increasingly more tense. Collette wears Annie’s anguish movingly, the film’s horrors always connecting to the character’s sense of inadequacy as a mother and daughter. Vanity Fair, Richard Lawson (January 25, 2018)I don’t want to say anything else about what goes on in Hereditary, because it benefits from pure discovery. What I can say is that Collette is a force throughout, turning in a full-bodied performance that gloriously skirts the edges of camp before returning us to a place of primal humanity. It’s a big, rewarding bit of work, and a good reminder that Collette should be let loose and given room to do her thing more often. IndieWire, Eric Kohn (January 23, 2018)Before it becomes an ultra-creepy haunted house movie, “Hereditary” is an almost-unbearable study of the grieving process. A family copes with traumatizing loss, screaming, crying, and growing apart as the scariest aspect of their lives becomes the actual hardships of each passing day. At its center, Annie (a terrifically unhinged Toni Collette) copes with her mother’s death by throwing herself into building a series of intricate miniatures in her large, creaky home. Her distracted husband (Gabriel Byrne) mostly keeps to himself, while her teenage son Peter (Alex Wolff) sulks on the sidelines, and his spooky younger sister Charlie (Milly Shaprio, who won a Tony for “Matilda” on Broadway) lurks around saying little. Just when it seems like “Hereditary” is entering traditional creepy-kid territory with Charlie giving off serious “The Omen” vibes, the movie takes an abrupt, violent twist that further the complicates the family’s dark moment.
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Post by thomasjerome on Jan 30, 2018 14:25:18 GMT
Collette has been receiving excellent reviews for HEREDITARY (2018) : Amazing! June release is an interesting choice for this type of movie given how crowded the market is but hopefully it'll do good box office enough. Toni is long overdue for a second nom. Hope it'll happen for this one.
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Post by bob-coppola on Feb 1, 2018 0:12:41 GMT
HELENA MARIA Collete deserves the world after United States of Tara. Also, A24 horror movies never fail to amaze me.
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