Although it’s still up in the air when Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” will be available to all U.S. moviegoers, with many theaters still closed, the reviews are in – and largely positive.
“Tenet” is slated for an international premiere on Aug. 26 and will open in select U.S. cities on Sept. 3, after its release date was pushed back three times due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, critics are promising that the film is worth the wait, and that the pent-up anticipation from all of its delays will make the public even more hungry to watch it.
Variety‘s reviewer Guy Lodge called the film – starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki – a “grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle,” praising its futuristic elements and surprising straightforwardness:
“The sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of...
“Tenet” is slated for an international premiere on Aug. 26 and will open in select U.S. cities on Sept. 3, after its release date was pushed back three times due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, critics are promising that the film is worth the wait, and that the pent-up anticipation from all of its delays will make the public even more hungry to watch it.
Variety‘s reviewer Guy Lodge called the film – starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki – a “grandly entertaining, time-slipping spectacle,” praising its futuristic elements and surprising straightforwardness:
“The sheer meticulousness of Nolan’s grand-canvas action aesthetic is enthralling, as if to compensate for the stray loose threads and teasing paradoxes of...
- 8/21/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of its international rollout starting August 26, the reviews are in for Christoper Nolan’s time-travel thriller Tenet, and fair to say it’s a mixed bag of opinions.
You can read Deadline‘s verdict here. Anna Smith writes that it’s “chiefly one for those numerous and ardent Nolan fans”, and that “there’s a niggling question of “Wtf?” throughout Tenet“, but “it is easy to sit back and revel in the wonder of the big-screen experience”.
In the UK papers, The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin is firmly in the “yes” camp, with his five-star writeup calling it a “time-bending action spectacular” and adding that it’s “the perfect film to get us back in cinema.” He also thinks that one viewing won’t be enough and that most viewers might struggle to grasp some of the finer points of the movie’s plot.
The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard takes a very different stance,...
You can read Deadline‘s verdict here. Anna Smith writes that it’s “chiefly one for those numerous and ardent Nolan fans”, and that “there’s a niggling question of “Wtf?” throughout Tenet“, but “it is easy to sit back and revel in the wonder of the big-screen experience”.
In the UK papers, The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin is firmly in the “yes” camp, with his five-star writeup calling it a “time-bending action spectacular” and adding that it’s “the perfect film to get us back in cinema.” He also thinks that one viewing won’t be enough and that most viewers might struggle to grasp some of the finer points of the movie’s plot.
The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard takes a very different stance,...
- 8/21/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
No sooner than fans on the internet were signing petitions demanding that Robert Pattinson never play Batman, the former “Twilight” star took to Cannes to remind everyone how brilliant of an actor he can be with a crazed performance in “The Lighthouse.”
Robert Eggers’ film, his follow-up to the indie horror classic “The Witch,” stars Pattinson opposite Willem Dafoe, with Dafoe playing an aging lighthouse keeper in the early 20th century in Maine. The two lock horns in a tense psychological battle that has the two screaming at each other amid the film’s dark comedy and supernatural horror touches. And that doesn’t even begin to describe the half of it.
TheWrap’s Ben Croll wrote: “A richly textured portrait of two men on the far edges of society intensifying each other’s descent into madness, “The Lighthouse” lulls like a sea song, knocks like a wave and had...
Robert Eggers’ film, his follow-up to the indie horror classic “The Witch,” stars Pattinson opposite Willem Dafoe, with Dafoe playing an aging lighthouse keeper in the early 20th century in Maine. The two lock horns in a tense psychological battle that has the two screaming at each other amid the film’s dark comedy and supernatural horror touches. And that doesn’t even begin to describe the half of it.
TheWrap’s Ben Croll wrote: “A richly textured portrait of two men on the far edges of society intensifying each other’s descent into madness, “The Lighthouse” lulls like a sea song, knocks like a wave and had...
- 5/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
The first Robert Pattinson film to make its debut since it came out that it’s all but guaranteed he will be playing the next incarnation of Batman is here: “The Lighthouse” continues the actor’s streak of working with celebrated auteurs to realize challenging visions. Much as he was in “The Lost City of Z,” Pattinson is largely unrecognizable here in Robert Eggers’ (“The Witch”) horror film, with mustache and sailor’s cap. And the first reactions from critics and journalists at the Cannes Film Festival where “The Lighthouse” just debuted in the Directors’ Fortnight section are saying that this black-and-white frightfest, built around seafaring lore, is a spectacular achievement.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian went so far as to say, “Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare ‘The Lighthouse’ is the best thing [at Cannes] with sledgehammer performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, like Steptoe and Son in hell.”
Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist said,...
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian went so far as to say, “Robert Eggers’s gripping nightmare ‘The Lighthouse’ is the best thing [at Cannes] with sledgehammer performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, like Steptoe and Son in hell.”
Gregory Ellwood of The Playlist said,...
- 5/19/2019
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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To celebrate the release of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties The Films Together by Adam Nayman (Abrams Books) and Where’s The Dude by Sharm Murugiah and Adam Woodward (Laurence King Publishing), we’re offering an ultimate Coen brothers prize bundle of both books and a limited edition giclée print from The Coen Brothers.
The Coen Brothers by Adam Nayman (produced by Little White Lies and illustrated by Telegramme Paper Co. with Oliver Stafford and Jason Ngai) will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, featuring film stills, interviews with key collaborators, close analysis, beautiful and evocative illustrations, punchy infographics and hard insight. Nayman sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot “some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness”, resulting in a covetable coffee table book for any Coen brothers or film fan.
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The Coen Brothers by Adam Nayman (produced by Little White Lies and illustrated by Telegramme Paper Co. with Oliver Stafford and Jason Ngai) will be the definitive exploration of the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, featuring film stills, interviews with key collaborators, close analysis, beautiful and evocative illustrations, punchy infographics and hard insight. Nayman sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot “some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness”, resulting in a covetable coffee table book for any Coen brothers or film fan.
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- 10/12/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To celebrate the release of A Ghost Story – available on DVD and Blu-ray 15th January 2018 – we are giving away a copy on Blu-ray.
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara star in this critically praised meditation on love and grief from acclaimed director David Lowery.
Casey Affleck follows up his Best Actor Oscar win last year with an extraordinary performance that will surely haunt next season’s awards ceremonies. Affleck stars alongside Rooney Mara, twice Oscar nominated for her roles in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Carol. There is a wonderful poignancy between the pair, who, torn apart by grief, must come to terms with the implications of their mortality.
Unforgettable and ambitious, like modern art house classics Personal Shopper and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, A Ghost Story is a film that delves deep into the human psyche to explore what it means to exist,...
Academy Award winner Casey Affleck and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara star in this critically praised meditation on love and grief from acclaimed director David Lowery.
Casey Affleck follows up his Best Actor Oscar win last year with an extraordinary performance that will surely haunt next season’s awards ceremonies. Affleck stars alongside Rooney Mara, twice Oscar nominated for her roles in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Carol. There is a wonderful poignancy between the pair, who, torn apart by grief, must come to terms with the implications of their mortality.
Unforgettable and ambitious, like modern art house classics Personal Shopper and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, A Ghost Story is a film that delves deep into the human psyche to explore what it means to exist,...
- 1/8/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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- 10/30/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
Talk about an all-star cast: Kristen Stewart, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Radcliffe, Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Helen Mirren, Viggo Mortensen, Ryan Gosling and more … all together, between the covers. That is, they share equal billing and page space in What I Love About Movies, a sprightly new compendium that Opus Books is publishing next week, just in time for holiday gift giving. Compiled by David Jenkins, editor of the U.K. movie magazine Little White Lies, and writer-critic Adam Woodward, the book takes one question - "What do you love about movies? - and poses it to 50 different bold-faced names involved in the screen biz.
- 10/30/2014
- by Stephen M. Silverman, @stephenmsilverm
- PEOPLE.com
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