#Undercover brother cast 2 update#

The sets are treated like those on a theater stage, collapsing or building in real time to aid scene transitions. Actors recite Dahl’s words verbatim, speaking directly to the camera for asides like “I said” (Dev Patel in particular excels at this). Henry Sugar, and the three other Dahl stories Anderson adapts, are opportunities for the director to continue to push his unique aesthetic and approach forward.Īnderson’s recent movies have seen the director continue to push more and more toward recognizing and making bare the artifice essential to filmmaking. Sugar, being a bit of a rapscallion, wants to use it to cheat at gambling, but this is immaterial. In this tale, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Henry Sugar, who seeks to learn a skill he just discovered existed: sight without the use of your eyes. The standout is the first (and longest): The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Each is a strange and delightful experiment in form and adaptation, and all are well worth your time. Then, this fall, we were treated to four shorts adapted by Anderson from Roald Dahl stories for Netflix. It’s been a busy year for Wes Anderson, and for Wes Anderson fans.įirst, Asteroid City came out this summer, which you can read more about if you scroll down. Tasha Robinson The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarĬast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley It’s heartbreaking watching him try, but it’s also an edge-of-the-seat thriller with moments designed to shock even jaded horror fans. But there’s nothing he can do to change the past all he can do is try to shift the future. As rural farmer Pedro (Ezequiel Rodríguez) tries to hold his family together and convince them of the danger, his history with them and his own failings get in the way. His film is empathetic and personal, and his characters and their conflicts are well drawn. (People who can’t handle graphic harm to children or animals, this is absolutely not your movie.) But Rugna isn’t torturing his characters with the sadistic glee of an Evil Dead Rises. But those rules are difficult and inconvenient to follow, and it’s so much easier to just deny the problem exists - no matter how many bodies pile up, and no matter how horribly people die.īureaucratic indifference, personal irresponsibility, and denial are major themes in When Evil Lurks, a tremendously tense, shocking story that purposefully ignores the lines most horror doesn’t cross. Everyone in the film’s rural Spanish farming community and the nearby modern town already knows the seven rules about dealing with possessing demons. With When Evil Lurks, Terrified writer-director Demián Rugna doesn’t just break the rules of possession movies, he literally writes his own. Enjoy!Ĭast: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Luis Ziembrowski

#Undercover brother cast 2 update#

Our latest update added The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.

Without further ado, here are the best movies of 2023 so far, and where to watch them. Because we’re thinking of you, dear reader. That also means new additions will be surfaced earlier in the list. That means the most recent release will be listed first, and then the next most recent, all the way down to the earliest release of the year that we liked. There’s plenty in here for any kind of movie-watcher to enjoy.īecause this list is not ranked (yet), we’ll be listing the entries in reverse chronological order. At the end of the year, this will then turn into our definitive list, with our staff voting on the best movies of 2023.įor now, consider this a sampling platter - a rolling list that encapsulates the many different kinds of good movies that have been released this year, and the different tastes in movies we have on our staff. We launched our list of the best movies of 2023 in February, but we will continue to update it as the year goes along, adding our favorite movies as we catch up with them. This year at the movies, we’ve had surprise box-office hits, strong genre fare, early awards contenders, and everything else in between.