It’s 1950. You’re God. Fine, you slept through a recent global conflagration and the Holocaust, but now you’re rested and ready to perform a miracle or two.

Motherless Brooklyn inhabits the world of film noir so completely the concept seems to have been created just to describe it. The film is set in the damp, drizzly November of the New York soul of 1957.

Zoe Kravitz makes her directing debut with Blink Twice. You know who Zoe Kravitz is, right?

n order to past the time here in my cell at Château d’If, Abbé, Faria advised me to apply myself to what I do best and pass my wisdom onto others

The term “shredded” is a surfing term, a term that means a wave that is ridden aggressively, and to its fullest. However, this film is about two human beings who have been shredded by unrelated medical catastrophes that have devastated their lives.