A ★★★★ review of Children of Men (2006)

I show a sequence shot from this every semester, so it's another film that I feel like I've seen recently but, in fact, I haven't seen in so many years that I couldn't remember what happens. Alfonso Cuarón brings us a tense look at a bleak future where humans have mysteriously all become infertile. He's got a great cast to take us on a real odyssey. The action is so relentless that the movie almost plays like one long set piece. There are moments of stillness, but danger is omnipresent so we never really get to relax. The stakes are