The essence of choice in survival situations comes down to individuality and how one reflects in that moment in time. Although on a grander scale with a different interaction of actors, Joe Penna's "Stowaway" starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Daniel Dae Kim follows the same ideal of what path would one choose.

Director Quentin Dupieux who has always formulated in idea of the wrong way people end up in their story despite their correct course (Fest Track interviewed his actors at Sundance for his film "Wrong") reflects in a more minimalist structure in "Keep An Eye Out" but with no less frolic and disdain.

What "Crisis" really is about is the opioid crisis from the three angles that it needs to be seen from to get a helicopter perspective. The first is from the research and commerce side which Oldman is embroiled with. The second is Armie Hammer as an undercover agent working in enforcement for the DEA trying to trap some dealers by posing as one. The third is a mother played by Evangeline Lilly who undergoes a trauma which brings her in a way into the orbit of Hammer's op, albeit peripherally

Here the idea of a person of Mauritania (alas "The Mauritanian"), which actually is a country on the Northwest Coast of Africa next to Algiers, is accused of being one of the masterminds behind direct phone connections to Osama Bin Laden through a sat phone (and, by extension, to the 9/11 attacks).

While the film wants to have harks to "Sicario" and "Scarface" in certain ways, especially with the inclusion of Steven Bauer (from "Scarface") as the father, it is the imbalances of an independent production that come through (though it does the best with what it has).

While much of "Soul" runs along comedic bounds with a sense of play, it is when it is in the ether world that it truly shines. This has much to do with the design as the ideas. The way certain things are visualized shows the perspective of what is being shown.

Like their previous collaboration with "Captain Phillips", Hanks and director Paul Greengrass try to keep the action and journey as grounded as possible. With the exception of a few massive overhead CG shots, it keeps with them on the trail or over a fire. The movie has scope but it plays in intimate terms.

With "The Weasel's Tale", the aspect of a film within a film or a story about show business can be a standard in reflexivity and therefore meta. What it does here is bring out the fact of what the different people that populate this certain house of a former famous actress represent.

The essence of Billie Holiday's story as told through the new documentary "Billie" is both indicative and reflective in its perspective. Billie Holiday was a hard partier and seemed to pursue a life of drama and conflict. As always there is so much to explain below the surface.