The Revenant (2015 film)

The press junket around this film made it out to be a DiCaprio vehicle and little besides. He’s good in this, don’t get me wrong, but the real appeal here is Iñárritu finding the poetry and meaning in his vistas and cinematography, transforming what could’ve been a story of people walking far distances into striking and meaningful statements about our world as effortlessly as one breathes. It’s maybe not as ingenious as “Amores Perros” and the violence might turn off audiences previously charmed by “Birdman”, but this epic could reasonably be argued as being Iñárritu’s most powerful work to date.

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