
The last hour is almost entirely taken up with that still-disorienting CGI interspersed with kidult dialogue that shifts between inspirational hokum and tedious exposition. Before long, Ramos and Fishback, perfectly serviceable leads, are trying to make themselves heard above the same tedious mayhem that once drowned out Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox. There is something about a stolen Porsche, something about a magical shard, something about time portals and something about Scourge, “herald of Unicron”. The latest terrible film in the franchise abandons the promise of 2018′s lovely Bumblebee with a slump back into all the familiar garbage. Starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, voices of Peter Cullen, Michelle Yeoh, Peter Dinklage, Ron Perlman, Pete Davidson, Colman Domingo, Dean Scott Vaquez. Photograph: Paramount Picturesĭirected by Steven Caple Jr.

Optimus Primal (voiced by Ron Perlman) in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. A bold, arresting debut that balances muscular, crime-thriller tropes against moments of unsettling beauty, Full review TB Leonid hopes to earn an honest living as a water diviner but that seems most unlikely in a lawless, superstitious backwater. The handlebar-moustached hulk of the title, Leonid (known to friends as Pamfir, meaning “stone”), returns home to his wife and son after a spell working illegally in Poland. Masculinity has seldom been more toxic than in this compelling snapshot of life in the Bukovina region of western Ukraine, near the Romanian border. Photograph: Conicĭirected by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Starring Oleksandr Yatsentyuk, Stanislav Potyak, Solomiia Kyrylova. Keough, granddaughter of Elvis, successfully transitions to the other side of the camera with a respectful take of a community under pressure.

Pitched somewhere between Chloé Zhao’s carefully calibrated doc-hybrid The Rider and a Richard Linklater slacker ridealong, this Caméra d’Or winner from Cannes was fashioned by debuting co-directors Keough and Gammell, their Pine Ridge reservation co-writers Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Redd, and the larger Oglala Lakota community. Naturalistic rhythms govern this tale of two young Native Americans wheeling and dealing against a backdrop of socioeconomic deprivation. Starring Jojo Bapteise Whiting, Ladainian Crazy Thunder, Jesse Schmockel, Sprague Hollanderm, Wilma Colhof, Iona Red Bear, Woodrow Lone Elk, Ta-Yamni Long Black Cat. Directed by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell.
