I looked up Young’s credits while writing this review and was surprised how little work he’s done since Arrival, which he got an Oscar nomination for. Solo is his only wide release credit since this. He did one prestige mini-series and one limited release film, too. I found a recent Reddit thread wondering about him, and a few comments claimed he’s shifted to directing commercials and spending a lot of time at home in Baltimore with his kids.

Though in fairness I’ve never seen Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which you’d think I would’ve, as a soft David Lowery fan (though not so much a Malick Knock-off fan), but I do hear nice things about Young’s photography there.

This might be the best-shot film of Bradford Young’s career, which I sort of half-mean as a compliment, I guess. (Looking back, it sort of seems like Solo actually derailed his career. I can’t really say it’s undeserved, but it’s not like he’s the only person peddling absurd underlighting and aggressively-metallic color correction choices.)