"What makes Wanda feel so expansive, and consequently so moving, is its sense of place. The opening is dominated by extreme long shots that track Wanda’s slow movement through the coal fields, and despite the film’s general neorealist handheld aesthetic, conventional modes of identification are eschewed at every turn. Scenes that would otherwise be considered crucial – for instance, a sequence showing how Wanda and Mr. Dennis’s relationship began between their first meeting at the bar and their first post-coital conversation – are entirely jettisoned, and the film in general sustains itself with a sparse, almost desolate mood."

Reviewed this essential work for Seattle Screen Scene.

"Thus, what is perhaps most surprising about the latest installment in the series, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is that it has maintained the same level of greatness while undertaking a radical change in the series’s style. Where the films up until this point were above all spy films, willing to sacrifice action sequences in favor of thrills delivered in a less overt – but just as flashy – manner, Fallout is an action film, delivering moment after moment after moment of truly astonishing, full-blown mayhem."

On this film's considerable pleasures and thrills for Seattle Screen Scene.