Screening Room: ‘The Revenant’

Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Revenant’ (20th Century Fox)

The Revenant,the new film fromAlejandro G. Iñárritu (Gravity, Birdman), is a revenge epic based on Michael Punke’s 2002 novel andstarring Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio.

It’s opening on Christmas Day in limited release and willexpand wider in January. My review is atPopMatters:

A spiritual view of the natural world clashes with the animalistic drives of a fallen humanity in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s operatic wilderness survival tale,...