Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in the US this year,we go on the march with Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro González Iñárritu for this epic frontier revenge western Related: The Revenant review – intestine-churningly brutal, elegant storytelling With The Revenant, or Alejandro González Iñárritu goes Terrence Malick – not that he needed much encouragement – for an extraordinarily handsome study of a human encounter with nature at its rawest: both gruesomely bloody and crystalline in its beauty. Iñárritu and Malick now share the same cinematographer,the multi-Oscar-winning Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, and no doubt Malick’s influence is being felt in The Revenant’s more rapturous, and visionary sequences. But there’s a focus,and narrative ambition, that is thoroughly Iñárritu-esque (whether that is a word) and which pitches The Revenant ahead of Malick’s recent experiments in thought-synthesis.
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Source: theguardian.com