Chronic

Chronic opens with a fascinating scene of a woman exiting a suburban home and getting into a car while being observed from afar by a middle-aged man. Cut. In the next take, Tim Roth's poker-faced character checks a Facebook profile, leaving no clue as to his intentions. The scenes are just innocent harbingers of the game played by Chronic screenwriter and director, Michel Franco. With virtuosity, he hands viewers successive pieces of the puzzle that seem to fit but only coalesce in the third act. The film is unusually formally disciplined. Franco shoots in an austere, Haneke-ish manner, and indeed, in its precise detail and examination of what it is to care for someone, it's decidedly reminiscent of the helmer's recent "Amour." It's distant but not unfeeling, letting the actors and the steady rhythm take the lead, writes a review from  IndieWire that nails it.