Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A horrible, catastrophic event wiped out most of humanity, and now a new, gleaming society has arisen, one where everyone wears white and behaves like an ...
Equals (2016) Film Review from the 15th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Drake Doremus, starring Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Bel Powley, Claudia Kim, ...
Equals is not another young adult utopian/dystopian movie. I would argue that it’s not – primarily at least – intended for young adults. And it’s far less about the utopian world within which it ...
films) plays Nia's co-worker Silas. While neither Stewart or Hoult delivers peak-level work (not their fault—the story calls for flatness), their carefully modulated performances provide the ...
“Equals” is a science fiction romance about an ostensibly utopian society where emotions no longer exist. But when an unlikely couple fall in love and rediscover the joys of emotion, they face a ...
"Just remember what this feels like." By THR Staff Equals First Look Exclusive - H 2014 In the trailer, Silas and Nia exchange longing glasses, almost hold hands in the hallway and get steamy and ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. [This is a re-post of my Equals review from the ...
Let's get the exposition dump out of the way first: In Drake Doremus' leaden sci-fi/romance Equals, an apocalyptic Great War has eradicated nearly all mankind and rendered 99.6% of the land ...
If you took Logan's Run, THX-1138, 1984 and Twilight and threw them in a blender, the result would probably look something like Equals, a vague mishmash of various sci-fi works -- albeit with a few ...
“Equals” unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future in which a human remnant lives on as a rigidly controlled society called the Collective. The men and women here speak in flat, hushed voices, their faces ...