Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, and star in the umpteenth retelling of the legend of Sir Robin of Loxley. They should have quit with Errol Flynn. Otto Bathurst directs.
The opening shot is a film’s calling card, an image of introduction. Writer-director Benjamín Naishtat’s Rojo doubles down by kicking things off with a pair of tempting curtain-lifers. A steady drip of looters emerges from a good-sized home in an Argentinian Province. The pending coup won’t be made official until …
If a film were to be judged solely on its opening shot, Roma would handily deserve all of this year’s best picture honors. Alfonso Cuarón’s curtain-raising quest to eke poetry out of life’s most mundane corners consumes but three minutes of a 135-minute running time. It’s a brilliant setup for …