The Dead Don’t Hurt ★★★★☆ Directed by Viggo Mortensen. Starring Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Colin Morgan, Ray McKinnon, Luke Reilly, Atlas Green, Danny Huston. 15A cert, gen release, 130 min Fine western about a couple (Mortensen and Krieps) separated by the civil war.
Krieps has her best showcase since Phantom Thread, wherein the smallest raised eyebrow speaks volumes. “I will miss you,” he tells her. “I hope so,” she replies, dryly.
Mortensen’s script tussles between feminist revision and old-school male showdowns, imagining Krieps’s character as a Joan of Arc-inspired frontierswoman still subject to the degradations of the era. Mortensen, who has previously channelled and reworked western tropes in The Road and Jauja, assembles a crack team of character actors around her. Full review TB Hit Man ★★★★☆ Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in Hit Man.
Photograph: Brian Roedel/Netflix 2024 Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta. Netflix, 115 min Witty comedy-thriller from one of American’s most versatile directors.
Powell plays Gary Johnson, a philosophy professor at a New Orleans university who moonlights as the tech operative with his local police department . One fateful afternoon, Gary is required to stand in for the “hired gun”, posing as a hit man for hire to lure would-be clients of paid assassins. Based on the 2001 Texas Monthly magazine profile of the re.