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wishfulclickingUs was a film experience: a Tuesday mid-day ticket with an entire theater to myself and it was grand. My main impression from the film that Lupita was in complete control of her performance, Jordan Peele has gotten better at the visuals, and Winston Duke is amazing. There were definite thrilling, scary parts but I did feel the overexplaining did dampen things towards the end. The twist I suspected from the beginning but that wasn't about tipping the hand as much as me being very genre literate.
Three Identical Strangers was an example of great premise, poor execution.
The Favourite was so good. Fantastic performances from everyone--leads to supporting, excellent costume design, and sharp humor woven throughout. I'm beginning to feel like I enjoy this director's work more when he also hasn't written the script. One of the best Emma Stone performances truly.
Lady Bird-- Saoirse Ronan is one of the most gifted actors of her generation and this movie was definitely in touch with the story it wanted to tell. Chalamet gave a great deadpan teenage boy performance. (He has the range). The family dynamics were really special to watch.
Vox Lux was promoted with Natalie Portman (one of my stealth faves--between Black Swan and Annihilation, I'm always interested in what she does) but she actually doesn't show up until at least a good third of the movie is one. And when she does show up it's with quite the accent. I finished the film, but the how of the popstar's career in the film was so confusing. So Natalie Portman's character's career is spawned when she sings a middling sad song during a memorial for a school shooting that she was a victim of; the film goes viral and she drops a single. But her career is more Electro Lady Gaga/Robyn and that did not jive with the kind of career that I'd imagine would come from singing a sad melody from a school shooting survivor?
Out of this batch The Favourite was the best and comes highly recommended.
Three Identical Strangers was an example of great premise, poor execution.
The Favourite was so good. Fantastic performances from everyone--leads to supporting, excellent costume design, and sharp humor woven throughout. I'm beginning to feel like I enjoy this director's work more when he also hasn't written the script. One of the best Emma Stone performances truly.
Lady Bird-- Saoirse Ronan is one of the most gifted actors of her generation and this movie was definitely in touch with the story it wanted to tell. Chalamet gave a great deadpan teenage boy performance. (He has the range). The family dynamics were really special to watch.
Vox Lux was promoted with Natalie Portman (one of my stealth faves--between Black Swan and Annihilation, I'm always interested in what she does) but she actually doesn't show up until at least a good third of the movie is one. And when she does show up it's with quite the accent. I finished the film, but the how of the popstar's career in the film was so confusing. So Natalie Portman's character's career is spawned when she sings a middling sad song during a memorial for a school shooting that she was a victim of; the film goes viral and she drops a single. But her career is more Electro Lady Gaga/Robyn and that did not jive with the kind of career that I'd imagine would come from singing a sad melody from a school shooting survivor?
Out of this batch The Favourite was the best and comes highly recommended.
