Silence, We Are Shooting! (2008)

"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.

As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.

Dora is the superhero we didn't know we needed.

The French-born director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s strategic choice to entrust the interpretation of a conventional, feminine character to a non-binary actor pays off: Corrin’s Lady Chatterley is awkward, edgy, and uninhibited at the same time. 

The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.

It’s dark, uncomfortable, and there are things that don’t make sense.