
An elderly man wants to exit earth in a state of unity with all creatures. To that end, he hires a quartet of manservants to plug his facial orifices with their fingers.
This inspiring true story falls nothing short of filling the audience with a passion to strive for their wildest dreams.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
For one widowed father and his five kids, an extraordinary gift will change their lives forever.
Some moments of the series are intense and ends on a cliff-hanger that will have you yearning for a second season.
Paul Thomas Anderson blends tragedy, comedy in 2025 epic, "One Battle After Another."