Why are you silent?

Lady Macbeth

Crit

The details are sketchy, but Katherine (a steely soft Florence Pugh) has been left no choice but to marry into a family of deplorables. Apart from her husband (Paul Hilton) and father-in-law (Christopher Fairbank) being despicable, even murder-worthy, each on his own merits, the former is either incapable of or uninterested in conjugal relations in the usual sense of the term.

So thank goodness for the servant Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), more than willing to supply the want in Catherine's life. And everything is fine until it isn't.

Not a particularly convincing film, but a useful showcase for Jarvis and especially Pugh, whom we will want to see again.

City of Ghosts

Crit

Some of the bravest ever amateur journalists founded Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently in order to publicize the atrocities of Daesh/ISIS, and this is a documentary about their precarious-from-minute-to-minute lives, a story simultaneously inspiring and terrible and depressing.