Ravenous
First screened in March 2020
Director: Antonia Bird. Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones, Sheila Tousey, David Arquette, Stephen Spinella, Joseph Runningfox, Jeremy Davies, Neal McDonough, John Spencer, Bill Brochtrup. Screenplay: Ted Griffin. Twitter Capsule:
Settler colonialism, uh, skewered like never before. Punchy exercise in tone, style, theme, but full potential unreached.
VOR:③
Music makes the biggest impression here—an unpredictable victory over the 19th-century cannibal soldiers. Appealingly weird. Less memorable than you'd think.
