Payback

...en ren njutning.

Adapting non-fiction to cinema can be tricky even for a documentarian, but Jennifer Baichwal makes a game effort at turning Margaret Atwood’s book-length essay Payback...

...a cocksure directorial debut, pounding along with cool brutality and a rugged retro style.

Gibson has a whimsical charm, a way of standing outside material like this and grinning at it. Oh, he's earnest and angry, blood-soaked and beaten nearly to death. But inside, there's a grin.

Built rather tenuously around the social implications that spring from the concept of indebtedness...