What could have been a somewhat interesting scientific journey, searching for a whale on its own in the vast seas, casts even wider ripples as it hits the screen today, during a time when so many of us feel cut off from our own, lonely and hungry for community.
What was probably a well intentioned distaff take on the standard spy action picture feels more like an adequate throwback. Not smart enough to be a satire, not convinced enough to come at us like the real thing. It’s somewhere in the middle. And, right now, for some, that might not be so terrible.
There are one and a half reasons to watch this coming of ager. For some, those may be enough.
Lana Wachowski goes for broke here. And, oh yeah, there are a lot of effects, too.
The promise of the combo: Coen, Washington, McDormand and, oh yeah, Shakespeare, may be scintillating, the result is every bit as stunning as we’d hoped.
Pedro Almodovar’s melodrama is a full bodied toast to motherhood, the good, the bad and the oh so complicated.
I’m all for showing the love for Lucy (and Desi) but I’m not sure this homage will make us feel it.
Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1940’s film noir is appropriately creepy. It’s also weirdly cold, which, sadly, neutralizes the whole damn thing.
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