
Flicks, Liam Maguren
This year has given us plenty of extended one-shot sequences, from the incredible boxing match in Creed to the slightly pointless long take in Legend. Oscar-winner Birdman, in particular, showed how doing an entire film as one digitally-stitched shot can put us vividly in the driver’s seat of a dazed and confused mind. But this bold German crime drama uses one ACTUAL take to bind you into the seat of a locked vehicle going downhill, and the results are more thrilling than any of those films before it.
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