The Currents (2025)
Waterlogged ‘Currents’ is awash in grandiosity An aristocrat’s impromptu sog evolves into a slog in the overtly pretentious “The Currents,” writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler’s rambling fever dream about a Mrs. Dalloway-type woman encountering an existential crisis following a haphazard stab at “suicide.” The protagonist, or in this case, antagonist, is the lovely Catalina (Isabel Aimé González-Sola), a successful […]
Carolina Caroline (2025)
Hot stars add heat to ‘Carolina Caroline’ Novelty is at a premium in the romantic crime drama “Carolina Caroline,” an alluring, ultimately pale imitation of Terrance Malick’s “Badlands.” Everything about it feels recycled and preordained. You correctly sense impending doom from the first moment the naive West Texas bumpkin Caroline makes eye contact with the dangerously […]