We review All Is Lost – A simple but very effective survival drama
There are many instances where a singular, towering performance carries a movie. In All is Lost, writer-director J.C. Chandor’s (Margin Call) gripping sophomore effort about an old man and the sea, a singular, towering performance is the movie. Not that I’m trying to sell short Chandor’s rigorously minimalist direction, Alex Ebert’s astutely moody score, and cinematographer Frank G. DeMarco’s striking lensing, as these …