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You Can See Everything – 7
A Rorschach test of a movie: is Elizabeth Holmes lying? is she deluded? does she know what lying is? is she Svengalied by her current lover? was she by her former lover? Is Nathan Fielder seeking the truth? or is he trying to build his movie? is he being honest? why is he interviewing/living with […]
Fjord – 8
Norway’s fjords are glorious, but its conforming culture not so much, at least in the vision of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu. Sebastian Stan and the redoubtable Renate Reinsve are spectacularly human in their roles as a religiously conservative mixed-nationality couple newly arrived in Smalltown, Norway. My first reaction was relief that I don’t have five […]
Sense and Sensibility – 6
A poor sister to Pride and Prejudice, although Daisy Edgar-Jones approaches Keira Knightley for visual pleasure. The plot is confusing for those not conversant with the novel, and while the cinematography is gorgeous, I found it a bit precious and distracting. Watching the movie was like watching a jigsaw puzzle get put together, producing about as […]
Resident Evil – 4
Strictly a one-note horror flick that got less and less scary the longer it lingered. There were a few humorous touches a la Weapons, Zach Cregger’s vastly superior prior film, but there was too much of the resident evil that kept getting bigger and bigger until the game was over.
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror – 6.5
Watched as a postscript to the current Broadway production, this was a delightful recap of the play’s improbable journey from London workshop to cult classic film, interspersed with a biography and interview of Rocky’s creator, Richard O’Brien. It ran off the rails in the last half-hour when it morphed into the story of the film’s midnight […]