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Half a decade after House Of Sand And Fog, director Vadim Perelman hasn’t lightened up. The doomy atmospherics are laid on so treacle-thick in this dual-timeframe drama, it’s a wonder the actors have room to breathe. Yet Uma Thurman is affectingly stoic as Diana, frazzled adult survivor of a Columbine-esque high school shooting.
As she struggles to steady her feelings of guilt and remorse, we flash back to her teen self (an intense Evan Rachel Wood), who finds herself snared in a harrowing moral dilemma. Part Elephant, part Jacob’s Ladder, moments of bruising power are dulled by overwrought symbolism and a baffling wrap-up.
Rob James
Ahead of GTA 6, Take-Two CEO says he’s “not worried about AI creating hits” because it’s built on recycled data: “Big hits […] need to be created out of thin air”
Getting Over It creator Bennett Foddy threatens the world once again: If you want Baby Steps to be a brutal rage game, "you can inflict that on yourself"
A Simpsons Hit and Run Remake will probably never happen – and I don't want it to
