Little Odessa

This is definitely the weakest James Gray film I’ve seen so far, though it’s not bad for a directorial debut. It shares a similar type of story with The Yards and We Own the Night, but it just doesn’t have the same level of engagement as those films. The performances are…

JP

Harmonious yet cold as ice, "Little Odessa" is built through melancholy, kinship, and violence, violence that comes from every place, at any time, and against anyone and everyone. Once in contact with it, the vicious circle starts with a point of no return, leaving…

♠ Ben ♠

Watching Gray's films from most recent to oldest, I see a curious trend: each new film becomes more polished and the social and human scale expands (even Two Lovers, his smallest film, has a vastness underneath its intimacy), yet the work gets more operatic in reverse.…

Jake Cole

Gray's mechanics of morality and family, attempting to constitute a microcosmic radiography of a dostoievskian existential condition with its remarks on faith and social dynamics. The shots of the city, always homogeneously bright, seemingly indifferent to everything, and…

Diogo Serafim

can’t say I enjoyed this much though Gray’s debut is not without its merits. the cultural specificity is pretty great — I just find the whole thing totally without charisma. even Roth, in one of his hottest eras (the other being now, duh), is drab

fran hoepfner

Curated Cupcake Cinema - #20 "Brooklyn's no good for me." Raw and operatic, yet with an intimacy that belies the lit firecracker's fuse running underneath it all, only James Gray could've really given us this kind of universally speaking nuanced crime character study…

🦇 Leighton Trent 🦇

É incrível como já em seu filme de estreia James Gray demonstra tanta maturidade. O uso da sombra como relator do caráter de seus personagens; o uso dos planos abertos e aéreos que caracterizam o vazio e o abandono presentes em cada esquina daquele mundo; a montagem seca…

Matheus Fiore

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Bruno Andrade

"Wait 10 seconds. See if god saves you" Career criminal Joshua Shapira (Tim Roth) returns home after a long exile to carry out a contract killing. Though he tries to keep to the shadows the past catches up and he finds himself navigating a complicated family dynamic…

Jesse Snoddon