First Cow Is A Divine Bovine Shrine To The Importance of Kindness

Close your eyes and picture the traditional American frontiersman. Chances are, we've all got a similar vision of what such a person looks and acts like. First Cow begins with a group of these individuals. A collection of white men adorned in fur pelts with thick beards, gruff attitudes, and a proclivity for violence. They talk about women as just objects they can use for sex and then dispose of. Anything that strikes them as unconventional, they'll try to slaughter it. The cookie for this group is a man by the name of Cookie (John Magaro). He doesn't fit the traditional American frontiersman profile at all.

The Platform Is Too Derivative To Really Reach Its Full Potential

Goreng (Ivan Massague) awakens in a small cell with a single companion, an elderly man named Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor). They're in an entity called a Vertical Self-Management Center, which consists of hundreds of floors each housing two people. Every day, a floating table filled with food travels downward in the facility. The people in the top floors get all the good food while those on lower floors either get stuck with scraps or have to resort to more vicious ways of surviving. Goreng is stuck on floor 48 and gets a first-hand glimpse at what desperate means people will turn to in the name of survival. Why would Goreng even come here? Well, he spends a couple months here, he gets a diploma.

The Banker Is a Disappointingly Rushed and Paint-By-Numbers Affair

Ever since he was a kid, Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) was all about challenging the status quo. A math genius, Garrett has long harbored dreams of being a real estate broker. That's not an occupation usually filled by Black people in the mid-20th century. But again, Garrett's a rebel and he's not about to let the racist status quo hold him back. Eventually, Garrett, after pairing up with Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), begins to create an empire of real estate, one that most people aren't aware they control. That's because Garrett and Morris have had Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult) pose as the owner of their business to white investors and fellow business owners. Steiner is the face of the operation but Garrett and Morris are the ones controlling all the cards.