Film Review – Anniversary

While production on “Anniversary” began in 2023, the feature has excellent timing, brought out for release during a tenuous time in America. The screenplay (by Lori Rosene-Gambino, making her debut) explores the unraveling of the U.S. after an authoritarian movement quickly takes command of the nation and its citizens, focusing on a family and how they deal with such a developing situation over the course of five years. There’s a lot going on in the picture, and director Jan Komasa (“Corpus Christi”) is ready to examine the meaty emotions in play as multiple characters gradually turn on one another. There are issues with the second half of the film, but “Anniversary” has provocative moments and invested performances, and Rosene-Gambino’s ideas on the downfall of America are eerily prescient, making for a periodically riveting sit. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com