A good craftsperson never blames their tools.
This adage is as true of cinema and filmmaking as it is of any other craft.
What was once a beacon of class and naive charm now lies empty and decaying.
Tensions run even higher when people start getting picked off one by one.
Her rescue comes just in time, too.
Set in the Cloverfield Universe,10 Cloverfield Lanetakes a hard left turn as it diverts from its predecessor.
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As the kids and their spouses chit-chat and bicker, danger looms nearby.
A violent home invasion kicks off an evening of suspicion and paranoia among the wealthy and maladjusted family.
On its face,Identityis a boilerplate thriller that follows the tried-and-true ‘and then there were none’ formula.
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No Exitpulls no punches; it is dark, nasty and at times, cynical.
As the party moves along, the atmosphere becomes stranger and Will falls into a spiral of self-doubt.
As the evening progresses a series of confusing and increasingly threatening phenomena begin to plague them.
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Yet this eccentricity is a perfectly portioned ingredient in the salty and cynical soup Eggers has brewed.
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