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Star Rating: 3.5 Stars
Three and a half stars, out of five.
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Project Hail Mary
The film plays fast and loose with the science stuff – but it does so in service to an emotional narrative about unlikely friendship, teamwork, and self-sacrifice. The film squarely lands the emotional beats that matter, finding much humor and heart in them. The story that emerges is a resonant one for today’s divided times.
The film plays fast and loose with the science stuff – but it does so in service to an emotional narrative about unlikely friendship, teamwork, and self-sacrifice. The film squarely lands the emotional beats that matter, finding much humor and heart in them. The story that emerges is a resonant one for today’s divided times.
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Saint Ange / House of Voices
“Saint Ange,” the first feature film by Pascal Laugier, contains many of the elements that made his 2008 cult-classic “Martyrs” so distinctive. Both films start off in a predictable, genre-specific way — then gradually reveal darker, stranger, subterranean layers that defy our expectations. Of the two films, “Ange” is lighter fare, while “Martyrs” is far bloodier and much more disturbing. In the United States, on some streaming services, “Saint Ange” is listed as “House of Voices.” “Saint Ange” begins as a slow-build Gothic ghost-story, in the vein of 2007’s “The Orphanage” or 2001’s “The Others.” “Ange” works quite well on…
“Saint Ange,” the first feature film by Pascal Laugier, contains many of the elements that made his 2008 cult-classic “Martyrs” so distinctive. Both films start off in a predictable, genre-specific way — then gradually reveal darker, stranger, subterranean layers that defy our expectations. Of the two films, “Ange” is lighter fare, while “Martyrs” is far bloodier and much more disturbing. In the United States, on some streaming services, “Saint Ange” is listed as “House of Voices.” “Saint Ange” begins as a slow-build Gothic ghost-story, in the vein of 2007’s “The Orphanage” or 2001’s “The Others.” “Ange” works quite well on…
