The emotional new film from Drake Doremus is a tender romance tucked in a sci-fi Trojan horse. Starring Nicholas Hoult and Kirsten Stewart, Equals is a sumptuous meditation on romance, emotion and what happens when those things are ripped away.
It's odd, creative and intensely insular, dropping viewers into a mysteriously mo**chromatic, near future world where everyone is emotionless and dressed in crisp whites. ** explanation, ** backstory. Hoult plays Silas, a regular citizen of this doped-up society. Each day is the same as the next. It's quasi-dystopian, like if people in 2030 were ruled by Xanax. Read more...