Ingrid Goes West (2017)

In the aftermath of her mother's death and having disgraced herself at a wedding, Ingrid seeks solace in the picture-perfect Instagram life of LA socialite Taylor Sloane and is soon inveigling her way into Sloane's circle of family and friends - her deceptions of course catch up with her but the problem with this darkly funny comedy drama, like a Six Degrees of Separation-lite, is that no lessons are learned and we leave Ingrid too abruptly without it ever becoming clear if she is simply acting out of grief (or was that just the finance?), is clueless, just another social media-fixated youth, criminal, or some kind of psychologically-ill special case.

★★★☆☆

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Wind River (2017)

Don't be turned off by the utter bleakness of the two previous Taylor Sheridan-penned movies (Sicario and Hell Or High Water, both also set on the American frontier) because this third suspense thriller of the loosely held together trilogy while bleak has a heart and a social conscience, telling a mystery of a woman's body found in the snow on a Native American reserve, and the only dissatisfaction you'll have as you come out of the cinema is that the suspense and the social commentary isn't sustained for longer beyond a ludicrous Reservoir Dogs finale that surely doesn't solve anyone's problems.

★★★★☆

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Red Lights (2012)

Occam's Razor is the philosophical principle which states the simplest explanation is often correct, but the most banal and laughable explanations can also be correct as demonstrated in this precursor to Now You See Me that swaps the Four Horsemen's magic tricks for the paranormal feats of Robert De Niro's spoon-bending Simon Silver, a Uri Geller type who commands large sums of money for tickets to his arena spectaculars and Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy's duo of Occam's Razor-spouting CSI: Supernatural investigators are the ones getting super worked up about his feats.

★☆☆☆☆

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