Reviews

James Gray is a favorite director of mine because his movies seem like analog ones in a digital world, which is also the case here even though it's the first movie he filmed with digital cameras.

Again, what remains after RKO's cuts deserves its reputation, but the cuts are obvious whether or not you're aware of the movie's history.

While I believe it and Grodin's performance are rated too low, I wouldn't be surprised if I never see the movie on a list of the best heist flicks.

Plot: Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO.

Regardless, the movie offers a little hope that the world may not always be this way.

If you'd like to understand why Roger Ebert referred to movies as "empathy machines," this one is a decent place to start.

This movie and Daylight, which came out not too long before this one (and that I believe is less entertaining, for what it's worth) did not make the world crave more "stuck in a giant concrete structure" action or horror movies, which this ones flaws likely explain.

Movies like this one perish if their lead performances are not believable, which is not a problem here since Trine Dyrholm is more than up to the task.

It is easy to accept that our exiled sibling heroes could spend so much time in their forest enclave because the movie makes it seem like a slice of heaven.

Again, Thomerson and Collison shine, as does Kamala Lopez's mom (who oddly doesn't mind Dollman's brand of vigilante justice despite seeming to prefer actual justice, but I digress), and the way the movie shines a light on gang activity and the government's lackadaisical attitude towards it deserves...