异形：夺命舰

　　一名孤身穿越明尼苏达北境雪原的女子，意外撞破少女绑架现场。百里荒原杳无人烟，暴雪割断通讯网络，她成为深陷绝境的少女唯一生机。

　　大哥尊非（沈腾 饰）带领一帮兄弟投靠富商大佬，凭借自己的手段在这个机遇与杀机并存的城市混得风生水起。就在尊非以为“钱”途一片光明之际，游走于名利场中的美人老板苏笑（张雨绮 饰）蠢蠢欲动开始筹谋更大的利益，看似置身事外的富商大佬黄朝晋（高捷 饰）也逐渐露出真面目......阴谋背叛、权利纠葛，过命的兄弟为何反目成仇？在极恶与道义的两端，尊非将如何为自己、为兄弟杀出一条血路？

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　三桥贵志以转校为契机，决定在新学校“嚣张”一把，从此做个不良少年。为了能在同学中获得存在感，他还特地去发廊弄了一头金色卷发。而和他转到同一所学校的伊藤也有同样的想法。在开学第一天，伊藤和三桥就发现了彼此的秘密，也因此结成盟友。三桥的信条是“无论用多么卑鄙的手段，只要能赢就行”，所以，在和别人打架的时候只要能玩阴的就绝对不正面对抗，但他真正的实力也不容小觑。伊藤为人处世相对正经，有时候甚至会慢半拍，也因此常常被三桥利用且被蒙在鼓里，而在打架方面，他战斗力超群，有着不服输的信念。两个人一起挑战校内校外的不良少年，引发了一连串爆笑事件。

　　伊朗选送的征战2018年“奥斯卡最佳外语片”的影片。伊朗女导演纳基斯·阿贝耶执导，背景设置在70年代末伊斯兰革命与80年代初两伊战争前后，它是以小女孩视角展开的家庭情节剧，特色鲜明的角色撑起了整个故事，时代背景的介入将主线故事与伊朗社会变迁联系起来，影片结尾以及它要传达的主题便来自于家庭故事与历史背景的交汇，于是冗长的情节剧在被战争打断的那一瞬间放佛才真正有了意义