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Coup de Chance 7.5
An old-form Woody Allen short story, set in the streets and party rooms of Paris instead of New York: four characters, lots of talk about marriage and life, and just when you start to care about what happens to the people we get a goofy, comic ending. It’s fun to be back in France and […]
Challengers – 3
Never have I cared less who won a tennis match. Or, for that matter, spent two hours with three less attractive, less interesting people. Pretty much everything about the tennis rang false, except perhaps the arrested development of the players. If this is what’s getting good reviews these days, heaven help the viewers over a […]
Anyone But You/ Blinded by the Light
Two good in-flight movies, following basic formulas: boy-meets-girl for Anyone But You and coming of age for Blinded By the Light. There are no surprises, but attractive leads make the predictable stories fun to watch. Blinded, of course, benefits from a soundtrack of great Bruce Springsteen songs. Anyone left me with the question of what makes a relationship? […]
About Dry Grasses – 7
I felt I was watching My Dinner With Andre, times three or four, held in a rural, charmless Turkish village in winter, in the snow. The “hero” tested the viewer’s sympathy by lying to his student, psychologically abusing her, betraying his roommate, taking advantage of a disabled woman and being a crappy teacher. But he was […]
Immaculate – 6
What better setting for a horror flick than a convent somewhere out in the Italian countryside? When Sydney Sweeney, playing a young naif from Detroit, takes her vows in a foreign tongue she little expects that the Immaculate Conception of the movie’s title will be thrust, unwillingly as 20 centuries before, upon her. The Catholic […]