Wolves (2016)
Anthony Keller, star of his NYC high school basketball team, is riding his way to Cornell on a sports scholarship. But he can only maintain his popular jock facade for so long, as his troubled father Lee has a gambling addiction that threatens to derail his dreams both on and off the court.
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The basketball element of this game is the worst I have ever seen. It's so dumb. Shocks me. The little gym and the whole walking in to play while hurt . Come on. Wtf is this?
I though this would be the typical sports movie with excitement and a talent story (we tend to enjoy those). But it's a B movie or a TV film movie. It's very predictable from the beginning. The acting is very bad. The filming is bad. There is just no story to tell. Don't waste your time.
Anthony (Taylor John Smith) attends St. Anthony's diverse school in NYC. He is the star of the basketball team and is looking at attending Cornell. His father is a college professor (Michael Shannon) with minor alcohol and major gambling issues which weighs on Anthony's tuition, etc. Anthony's problems compound as the film goes on until it gets to the point he has to step up and go above and beyond.This is a high school basketball drama. The film uses the N-word in a less than racist, and causal manner, that does not go unnoticed and corrected. I thought Taylor John Smith was less compelling in his star role than his support cast. Michael Shannon provided us with a complex antagonist, a role that sometimes take center court and front of the DVD cover.Guide: F-word. Implied sex. No nudity.
**May Contain Spoilers*The cinematography is to die for and the Re-Mark-Table score (pun intended) is worthy of its own release, but what makes this movie great is its anarchic progression of individual scenes rather than a total piece. The animal husbandry scenes are at once enormously conservative and transgressive. The transgender lava-lamp scene . I think Michael Shannon really killed that deer-IDK. What I do know is that every 14 minutes is something new and exciting worthy of the Sicilian Scene. Whether the bicycle pump is alive or not, I don't kare (two puns in one sitting). A regressive costume drama into American paternity, a master- class in optometry, and a riveting wolf documentary. Best picture of the decade.