Okay, so Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft.
Not surprisingly, the film’s most effective scene is also its least pretentious.
Its brilliance emanates equally from its structure, the acuteness of its gaze, and Edward Yang’s acknowledgement of life as a series of alternately humdrum and catastrophic occurrences.
The Shooting pays obvious homage to the classic westerns of John Ford and Howard Hawks.
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