Directed by Kelly Reichardt In Night Moves three ecoterrorists hatch a plan to blow up a dam. The first half of the film is seen through their eyes, and the second half, after the successful demolition, looks at them from the outside. It is thus a film that neither glorifies nor demonizes their pursuit but instead … Continue reading Night Moves (2013)
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Night Moves (1975)
Directed by Arthur Penn A film noir with shades of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Night Moves is a Los Angeles-based detective story in which the private eye hero finds himself in over his head in a convoluted plot wherein nothing is as it seems. In contrast with those other two films, with finales … Continue reading Night Moves (1975)
Searching (2018)
Directed by Aneesh Chaganty Searching combines the stylistic premise of Unfriended with a prologue as emotionally taxing as Up and a sensational, dramatic kidnapping story with the twists and turns of Gone Girl. The movie's hook, that it's a story told entirely through computer screens, at times stretches believability (do you really FaceTime the detective tracking your daughter's … Continue reading Searching (2018)