Anchor Bay’s excellent transfer and engaging extras are still not enough to elevate Only God Forgives above anything more than eye candy.
Yet another limp spy spoof that fails to make any interesting critiques about the genre, let alone construct a humorous gag.
The doc doesn’t take the time to examine why Burning Man inspires such a level of fanaticism, overshadowing human interest with a gluttony of B roll.
Jorge Hinojosa wisely subverts Slim’s mythos by pulling the curtain back on it in the doc’s second half by revealing the man beneath.
Nathan Silver’s film is a quiet and affecting micro-budgeted drama, its condensed frame evoking the claustrophobic feeling of the household it examines.