Arctic (2018)

Imagine the Robert Redford character in All Is Lost on a sled, not a yacht, travelling across expanses of snow, not ocean, and having encounters with polar bears, not sharks, in a more contrived survival struggle - this movie compounds disaster upon disaster in an unlikely and ultimately unnecessary way - and you've got this beautiful-looking, extremely well-acted but very familiar man-versus-nature thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen.

★★★☆☆

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All Is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford plays an aged, all-American version of Pi, again lost at sea, whose plastic surgery gives him a suitably awed expression throughout the dramas that unfold on his boat and dinghy, all beautifully filmed, often spectacular, and thoroughly engrossing.

★★★★★

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