Shattered (2020)

Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.

I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.

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.

That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has everything a movie director from the 80’s could wish.