Windfall Review
As the wealth gap widens by margins even the most dystopian fiction couldn't imagine, the rage of those without means will begin to escape through unusual methods. Jason Segel's unnamed everyman chooses simple breaking and entering, while director Charlie McDowell vents by crafting one of the most detestable wealthy monsters ever put to screen.
McDowell is best known for 2014's The One I Love and 2017's The Discovery, both of which, like Windfall, were collaborations with screenwriter Justin Lader. Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker shares a co-writer credit with Lader, and the film's star also holds a Story By on the list. The film's tiny cast includes Segel, Lily Collins of Mank fame, and The Power of the Dog star Jesse Plemons, along with veteran character actor Omar Leyva.
Black Crab Review
The plot is as simple as the trailers would lead one to believe. A scruffy man billed as Nobody by the script (Segel) breaks into the palatial estate of a tech billionaire. He casually snags a handful of cash and a nice watch before he's interrupted by the unexpected return of the home's occupants. The homeowner, an immensely hateable CEO (Plemons), and his long-suffering wife (Collins) are as obliging as they can be to the man who is robbing them, but the situation devolves swiftly. Armed with a pilfered handgun, the burglar is unable to devise a successful plan and new problems arise at every turn. The situation is less frightening than it is overwhelmingly awkward as a few minutes slowly becomes a multi-day kidnapping. It's a borderline Hitchcockian bottle noir, with nothing to do but fight it out about income inequality and marital woes.
The film displays some strong cinematography, courtesy of Isiah Donté Lee, but the draw is
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