Not optimistic in a cheap way. Hopeful in the way that actually sticks.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamÃn begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Real hope in film comes from honesty about difficulty. These films know that.
Resolution after sustained dread. The hope lands differently.
Works in a group. Generates conversation.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Some films earn their effect. These do.