Yara (2021): An Unfocused True Crime Narrative
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.

Little René lives in a house in the woods of Slovenia. He spends his summer holidays playing alone, fantasising about defending the national borders from an enemy attack. The child designs and builds wooden toy weapons and then immerses himself in nature, hiding in abandoned bunkers from the Second World War and staging imaginative battles.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
Shudder’s Host (not a particularly original title, I must say) attempts to bring the spooks to “the quarantine generation” by presenting us with a scary Zoom call during lockdown.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
The one-way journey went to the desert that refused to offer an answer or a transcendence.
The film is bogged down with one-off rain monster threats that always come to a quick and undramatic end
Juno is extremely funny, very well-written, and contains great performances. The film is also about a very important topic, one that is extremely relevant now: women’s reproductive rights. Is this Oscar-winning film spreading a pro-life or pro-choice message to its audience?