La Ratonera (2020)

Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.

The relationship between Will and Sean is the best part of the movie. It’s always a delight to see Robin Williams on screen

With The Father, writer-director Florian Zeller- who wrote and developed the play upon which the film is based- pulls no punches as he confidently makes every effort to put the audience in the mind of someone whose grip on reality has all but vanished. It’s a dazzling testament to Zeller’s abilities as a director as he makes his first transition from stage to film appear as if he’s been working behind a camera his entire career. The dialogue he fashions with co-writer Christopher Hampton, along with the work of production designers Peter Francis and Cathy Featherstone, collectively makes the downward spiral of dementia startlingly tangible, doing so in a way that can be comprehended by everyone except the person it directly affects.

This is not a film, it’s a drop tower.  A drop tower that you don’t get off of for the vast majority of its 106-minute runtime. 

In this high-flying mission, the pups gear up with jets to stop the Duke of Flappington and save Barkingburg.