Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian director renowned for bringing ambitious science fiction to the screen, from the linguistic puzzle of Arrival through the dystopian sequel Blade Runner 2049 to the epic adaptation of Dune. I have reviewed 4 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.5★
Denis Villeneuve arrived at Sicario in 2015 off the back of a run of films that had established him as one of the more serious-minded directors working in mainstream American cinema. After the Quebec-set domestic drama Incendies (2010) and the missing-child thriller Prisoners (2013, and a film
Rating: 2.5★
There's a particular kind of frustration that only a technically brilliant film can produce. If something is rubbish from top to bottom, you just shrug and move on. But when a film has every conceivable ingredient at its disposal and still manages to leave you completely cold, that&
Genre Drama
★★★ — Arrival (2016)
Genre Drama
★★★★½ — Prisoners (2013)
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