![]() T.A.In 2022, a total of 449 movies were released in the United States and Canada, up from 406 in the previous year. An antic vision of modern anxieties run amok. ![]() When a chemical spill unleashes an “Airborne Toxic Event” on their small college town–what to call things, how words mask or amplify our anxieties, is a preoccupation of Delillo’s-the family piles into the station wagon, along with seemingly everyone else in their anesthetized college town, to escape it. And their four kids are a chorus of pop-cultural erudition. Greta Gerwig is his genial, slightly zoned-out wife Babette, with a perm and a secret pill habit. Driver plays Jack Gladney, a professor at a fictional liberal arts college, and he’s a marvel of comic energy, as personable as he is hilariously puffed-up. Should such a talky, slantwise book be filmed? Baumbach’s answer is a commanding yes, especially with Adam Driver as his magnetic lead. Noah Baumbach’s boisterous, off-kilter fever dream, White Noise, a strikingly faithful adaptation of Don Delillo’s 1985 novel of consumerism, post-industrial paranoia, and fear of death, is the biggest and highest minded swing of the season. One of the years strangest and most haunting films. And the birds themselves are miraculously strange: bestial and vulnerable, beautiful and terrifying at once. Nadeem and Mohammed (and their hilarious sidekick/assistant Salik) are faced with more and more sick birds, as the air quality in Delhi is increasingly inimitable to life, boom and bust funding, and fraternal conflict. ![]() If that sounds heady, just plunge in, All That Breathes is visually stunning document of a megacity on the edge of chaos and a heart-rending account of two brothers persisting against the odds. Nominally the story of a small wildlife clinic in New Delhi run by two brothers and dedicated to caring for kites–the carnivorous birds of prey that wheel in the skies above the teeming city-this is more of a meditation on human persistence and the blurred lines between civilization and savagery. T.A.Ī mesmerizing, unforgettable documentary about so many things: wildness, urban squalor, intimacy, devotion, entropy and heartbreak, All That Breathes is a film that is hard to classify and harder still to shake. Suffice it to say that Barbarian goes for it, in every which direction, all the way to its gory end. Justin Long is brilliantly funny in a role that shouldn't be spoiled. All hell breaks loose in Cregger’s movie and in ways you don’t anticipate. Barbarian taps into the unease of the sharing economy and the forced intimacy of Airbnb-but it doesn’t stop there. They decide, tentatively, awkwardly, to bunk together for the night. When she arrives in the middle of the night, she finds it already occupied by Keith (Bill Skarsgard), who is half friendly, half creepy. Georgina Campbell plays Tess, who has flown into Detroit for a job interview and booked an inexpensive Airbnb in a dubious neighborhood. Barbarian’s tone is its greatest feat-writer-director Zach Cregger has made something genuinely scary but also funny, subversive, and irresistibly well-paced. This surprise horror hit derives its percussive pleasures from the way it sneaks up on what you expect and delivers something just slightly to the left.
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