"Outerlands" Provides Community in Unexpected Places
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.

Lindolfo Chaves is the president of a tobacco company based in Havana and also the president of the Liga Pro Restauración de la Moral y la Virtud, but in private he is an incorrigible libertine until, after conducting a medical check-up after an agitated A night of partying, his family doctor diagnoses him that he has a heart murmur so he advises him to take rest in a place where there is peace and tranquility, to which the businessman decides to go to his nephew's house, the lawyer Ruperto Chaves, who lives in Caracas
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
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.
Tran Quoc Bao succeeds in telling us a story about martial arts, human decay, and friendship. The originality shown by his filmmaking is admirable and brings fresh air to the classic Chinese martial arts genre.
A recent look at gender and racial diversity in film shows some signs of progress. However, white men still make up the vast majority of actors and directors in top-grossing films.
The Conjuring: The Last Rites delivers a thrilling mix of scares and heart. From the axe-wielding ghost to the Warrens’ emotional farewell, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga shine. Fans get a chilling, atmospheric conclusion that’s worth watching in theaters.
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.