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“The End,” by director Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing ... an oilman and his trophy wife (Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton), their bunker-born adult son (George MacKay ...
If you thought films like The Brutalist and Sinners were bold commercial moves, they've got nothing on The End - the ...
Joshua Oppenheimer is probably best known ... you’ve talked about those themes of denial and delusion, and what Michael Shannon’s character is doing in this movie reminded me a lot of what ...
Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer. Starring: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, Michael Shannon. Cert 12A, 149 minutes The Independent is the world ...
To be fair, taking place over two hours and 30 minutes in the same isolated bunker, the film could not be classed a laugh riot. We don’t even get to see the end of the world. That has more or less ...
Oppenheimer’s latest film ... an oil tycoon with a jaunty blindness to the devastation he helped wreak (Michael Shannon); and Son, a sweetly muddled young man who’s spent his whole life ...
The action "jolts forward" when an outsider (Moses Ingram) somehow enters the bunker, said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times. The cast – MacKay in particular – are "sharp as sushi knives" and it all ...
Frankly, almost 50 years later, even those familiar with the unorthodoxies of film-maker Joshua Oppenheimer ... MacKay her son and Michael Shannon the father (all the characters are nameless ...