Naomi Watts’ true-life survival story Infinite Storm can’t handle its own truth - The A.V. Club

Director Małgorzata Szumowska slavishly recreates the hiker’s ordeal minute by minute, then trades visceral thrills for deeper (unearned) themes

Joel and Ethan Coen definitely understood the impact upon an audience of telling them, as they subversively did with 1996s Fargo, that what they were about to watch is based on a true story. The use … [+4059 chars]

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