Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

 

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

Idiosyncratic adaptation of a Jonathan Lethem novel reduces the original's narrative into a superbly acted and cast and complex neo noir crime drama; the 1950s period settings are excellent.

Miss Sloane (2016)

In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price.

It's mainly Jessia Chastain's outstanding performance that carries this well-made, tense political thriller with a much too implausible twist ending.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

(ph: Joshua Pestka)

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The Whole Truth (2016)

A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.

Concussion (2015)

In Pittsburgh, an accomplished pathologist uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.

Professionally made and well cast investigative drama has good intentions revealing a suppressed truth about professional American football, but remains very much in the conventions of this subgenre.

Odd Thomas (2013)

In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

Oddly unbalanced horror comedy-drama that doesn't quite spark either laughs nor scares; and the funereal twist after the finale is downright disappointing.

Maltin**1/2: "Eerie effects, a thriller finale, and a soulful denouement make a fine sit. Fans will applaud the writer-director's adaptation of a 2003 novel by Dean Koontz, whose branded blend of banter and terror is well replicated. Nonfans, though, will be lost."

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Introducing a phenomenon in which anything is possible the creators of this movie obviously thought it was feasible to do likewise with the plot, so the result is messy, without coherence and full of weird things going on devoid of any logic or explanation.