"Apex" Captures the Primal Fear of Being a Woman
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.

Paolo is on trial at a call center. He has the time of a phone call to convince the elderly Nando to give him his credit card details. A short film on the vulnerability of the elderly and on jobs that dirty the conscience.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.
Darren Arronofsky focuses on diverse and heartbreaking stories about the human experience.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
Clearly, in the end, Allison raised a responsible child because she knew that her "friend" was doing something that made her uncomfortable and turned away from her. No worries, Super mom was already one step ahead of her.
Few movies deal with aging (particularly aging women) with as much compassion as Relic does. Yet it’s not sickly sweet and not a soapbox rant against ageism. Relic simply is, allowing the horror to seep in quietly and carefully.
Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.