extremity

Given the extremity of the crisis we're in, we're not in some run of the mill “democracy versus the elites” situation.

Lucas underwent surgery Tuesday morning to repair what Riley deemed to be “a lower extremity” injury.

There are characters that could be cut and scenes that could be shortened, but I continue to make retrospective discoveries about the psychology and morality of a contentious family drama that, in its tragicomic extremity and bold black humor, bears comparison with Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County.”

“Never Let Go” reveals itself to be one of the most shockingly bleak American genre films in recent memory, though perhaps that’s not so surprising coming from a French director initially associated with the New French Extremity, who was once named as a part of the “Splat Pack” of up-and-coming horror directors in the early aughts.

But she’s also the type of person whose extremity and selfishness make it easy for the audience to overlook the filmmaker’s ethically questionable choices, beginning with having Cunningham stand in for him.