When a comet threatens his wife and child — well, let's just say the star doesn't react quite as you'd expect I thought I knew plot twists. I’ve seen The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects and every Planet of the Apes movie ever made, including that terrible one by Tim...
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Gerard Butler’s excellent end-of-world thriller Greenland will make you sick, in a good way
The new movie Greenland will make you sick. And I cannot recommend it highly enough. An end-of-the-world thriller that arrives during, well, all of this, director Ric Roman Waugh’s film represents the best of a historically stupid genre. While there are still loads of...
‘Greenland’: Review
Delivering the apocalypse on a budget, the disaster film Greenland dramatises the end of the world with no-nonsense efficiency. Gerard Butler’s sturdy performance is perfectly suited to the modest proceedings: Playing a husband and father trying to protect his family...
‘Greenland’ Review: Gerard Butler Stars in a Disaster Movie That’s Better than 2020 Deserves
After the hellscape of a year that was 2020, it stands to reason that a disaster movie about a regular guy and his family trying to stay alive as the world goes to shit around them would feel redundant and/or too close to home. Either way, it seems like something that...
‘Greenland’ Review: Gerard Butler Faces a Comet Hitting Earth, but This Domestic Sci-Fi Thriller Achieves a Mostly Shallow Impact
Most disaster movies are about going big. But “Greenland,” in which Gerard Butler runs around trying to save his family as a comet gets ready to hit the earth, is a movie that takes pains to make the end of life as we know it look like something that could actually...
‘Greenland’: Film Review
Gerard Butler stars in Ric Roman Waugh's apocalyptic thriller, which was released theatrically overseas and will roll out on Premium VOD in the U.S. starting mid-December. From quarantines to climate change to the Boogaloo Bois, it feels like we’re living in the midst...