To screenwriter / director's Sean Penn's great
credit as a storyteller, it's easy to come away from Into the Wild predominately feeling a wistful sympathy for Chris» Icarian search for truth.
It's appropriate that the end
credits of Halloweens hould refer to the menacing hometown boy
as The Shape: this superior low - budget thriller is form made fiercely functional, style
as the delicious complicity between
storyteller and audience.