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Tag Archives: Survival
The Long Walk (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): The Last Man Walking
“The Long Walk” is a modest but effective dystopian survival thriller driven by one simple but compelling story premise. Although we can clearly see where it is heading from the very beginning, the movie keeps things rolling before eventually arriving … Continue reading
The End We Start From (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Her motherhood after a disaster
“The End We Start From” is a simple but compelling movie which follows a young woman’s struggle for survival and motherhood after one big national disaster. Mostly limiting itself around its heroine’s viewpoint, the movie often accentuates how things become … Continue reading
Azrael (2024) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): A wordless post-apocalyptic horror flick
When did I begin to notice Samara Weaving? Well, that was actually not a long time ago at all, considering her delightful breakout performance in “Ready or Not” (2019). Since that point, she has impressed us more and more as … Continue reading
Society of the Snow (2023) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Under that unimaginably extreme condition
What would you do under a situation as grim and extreme as whatever the survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster experienced in 1972? This is surely a hard and difficult question, and Netflix film “Society of the Snow”, which was … Continue reading
Triangle of Sadness (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Three acts of absurd satire by Ruben Östlund
Ruben Östlund’s new film “Triangle of Sadness”, which won the Palme d’Or award when it was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in last year, attempts three acts of absurd satire which are often amusing even though they do gel … Continue reading
The Fall (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Stuck at the top of a 600-meter tower
“The Fall” often made me wince and cringe for good reasons. As I said several times before, I have considerable aversion to high places, and I must say that the movie did a pretty good job of unnerving me as … Continue reading
Arctic (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): His desperate Arctic journey for survival
During its first act, “Arctic” impressed me a lot with vividly cold and harsh moments of desperation and solitude which actually made me curious about how they were made, and that is why it is a shame that the movie … Continue reading
Bird Box (2018) ☆☆1/2 (2.5/4): Don’t open your eyes…
“Bird Box”, which was released in US in last week and then became widely available via Netflix this Friday, begins with a chilling premise and then provides a number of good moments to scare and unnerve us. I was entertained … Continue reading
Adrift (2018) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Adrift Alone for 41 Days
As your average survival drama movie, “Adrift” did its job as well as expected, but it somehow did not engage me enough during my viewing. While it is surely a well-made work which is also supported well by its lead … Continue reading
The Martian (2015) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): Stranded Alone on Mars
Even though we have learned a lot about Mars since the Viking 1 lander touched down on its surface in 1976, our red neighbor planet still remains as intriguing and mysterious as many other distant places in our solar system … Continue reading
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