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Black Bear is a tremendously pretentious film but Plaza feels real and keeps it interesting, delivering one of 2020's most impressive performances.

This is a story about grief and loneliness here masquerading as one about rockets.

Lorne Balfe’s magnificent, melodic score shapes our sense of time passing, just as shots of the open desert, of the emptiness around the palace, add to our sense that all that history is present and immediate.

The fascination of the film is the atmosphere created and the danger that fills every living minute

A film doesn't have to have a message, or a moral; indeed if its only motive is mercenary then that's fine, as long as it entertains. Kraven just doesn't.

As a moody, atmospheric study of paranoia, it is hard to beat.

On the whole, it's episodic and uneven although both men have serious acting chops and there's a studied bleakness to the mood, as though the grey weather has seeped into its soul.

Without a doubt, Pesce is one of the most exciting young directors to emerge in recent years.

Lanthimos skillfully transforms this lustful carnival into a coming-of-age drama, emphasising the protagonist's mastery of sexuality as a connotation of her mental evolution.

Cronenberg is most certainly David’s son, and while he’d probably prefers to avoid comparisons, his proclivity towards jarring imagery and shocking material instantly calls to mind his father's work.

A highly mannered approach, a staccato script and deliberate emotional distance mean that the drama never really comes alive, but the whole thing looks and sounds divine.

Made with consummate care, the film stands out for its exquisite cinematography.

This is a film about America's difficult relationship with race and the way that unresolved issues result in ongoing damage.

The film exposes the haphazard working practices of TV journalism in dangerous places

There's little new under the sun, and even less by moonlight.

Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.