Anniversary
2025
***½
Director: Jan Komasa
Cast: Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack, Dylan O'Brien, Sky Yang, Rebecca O'Mara
Ellen, Paul, and their four children celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. When their son introduces his new girlfriend, whose book is about to inspire a radical political movement, their lives begin to unravel. Over the following years, the movement spreads across the country and tensions within the family intensify. This gripping dystopian political drama explores the topical polarisation in the US, though Lori Rosene-Gambino's screenplay doesn't really delve deeply into what The Change is, but she does take the story to a surprisingly grim and unsettling conclusion. Diane Lane is reliably great as the matriarch of the family.
