Saw it on a plane because I wanted to see why it bombed and why Hollywood didn’t understand why it bombed.
Well, for starters, it’s pretty fucking stupid, despite the charms of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, who are too cutesy hip by half… as enjoyable as that may be, it’s too smug. Then there’s the plot which is too inside and beyond belief. Not to be an asshole, but Emily Blunt plays an AC bumped up to director on…
You’d think a movie that stars Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult about an FBI agent tracking down the White Supremacists who committed a series of bank robberies and terrorist attacks in the Northwest in the 70s would have enough true crime and thriller elements (the kind you might find in some actually good conspiracy thrillers from the 70s) and resonance to create a complex and exciting film. But after the third set piece that leads nowhere, and the array of…
I love indie movies, especially ones that immerse you in other cultures.
I wanted to like this memoir of a young Navajo boy from San Diego being forced to live with his grandmother in New Mexico for the summer and getting in touch with his roots with the help of his cousin, “Frybread Face.”
But as charming as this slice of life memory film is, it lacks a certain amount of dramatic heft or significance that would elevate it from…
The one positive thing I can say about this otherwise soul-sucking, horribly directed, misfire of a movie is that Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley deserve kudos for being so vulnerable with their bodies and their nudity.
It’s too bad, however, that their energy is wasted in this 2 plus hour slog. It is aggressively bad, long, and just plain dumb… but on a highly production-designed scale.
The writer/director Coralie Fargeat seems to be writing and directing with a trumpet and…
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