Fionn Whitehead

It’s easy to feel guilty when you watch Stefan suffer for the choices you made on his behalf. But once you settle into the rhythm of the film and its structure, you can start to get the sense that the choices aren’t yours any more than they are Stefan’s.

It’s the height of summer, but theaters around the Bay Area are currently resplendent in a wide variety of amazing pictures right now, from tentpole superhero movies to quiet, meditative micro-budget films

We learn hardly any names — no backstories, no motivations. But war leaves little time for dialogue, and the wordless understanding between the soldiers, while one we may not be privy to, establishes a new way of telling war stories — one that focuses not on an “us vs. them” but on survival by any means.