alternativecandidate: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) “Hunt for the Wilderpeople takes a troika of
alternativecandidate: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) “Hunt for the Wilderpeople takes a troika of familiar story types—the plucky kid, the crusty geezer, the nurturing bosom—and strips them of cliché. Charming and funny, it is a drama masquerading as a comedy about an unloved boy whom nobody wants until someone says, Yes, I’ll love him. Much of the humor comes from the child, who’s at once a pip and a gloriously expressive ambassador for the director Taika Waititi’s cleareyed take on human nature and movies. Mr. Waititi knows that we love to cry at sad and bad times, but he also knows that people in pain need to get on with their lives.”Manohla Dargis -- source link