Category: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi)

    I kept waiting for something to go wrong in Hunt for the Wilderpeople. The first act is this exceptionally tight, efficient narrative—but with time for montage digressions as director (and screenwriter) Waititi gently examines lead Julian Dennison as his life goes through a pastoral upheaval. Dennison is a tween on the edge of teen and…