#1 · Curator's pick
Heart of the Beast
A lean wilderness survival thriller with real teeth
David Ayer drops a Special Forces officer and his combat dog Odin into the Alaskan wild after a plane crash, and the result is a tight, high-stakes fight against the elements. Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons anchor a man-versus-nature grind that earns its payoffs, and the scale of that frozen landscape demands a big screen. It lands at 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and 7.5 on IMDb.
- Relentless survival momentum from the first crash
- Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons carry the tension
- Alaskan wilderness built for the big screen