“Truly a film for 2020: this mismanaged melodrama spends too long stuck in a house and achieving very little.”
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“It’s a film that promotes the melancholy nobility of individualism, even when it’s frowned upon.”
Read More“Alabama is a call-girl, paid by Clarence’s boss to 'run into' Clarence and get him laid. She eventually admits the setup, and Clarence responds not by rejecting her, but by marrying her. So far it could almost be Pretty Woman.”
Read More“It’s like catching up with the self-centred, needy male protagonist of a Woody Allen film forty years down the line- from the daughter’s point of view.”
Read More“In some sense, the genius of Donnie Darko doesn’t have anything to do with Frank’s apocalyptic insights and Donnie's tumultuous journey to finding the truth about his psychosis. It’s the surrounding distractions.”
Read MoreThe thematic prominence of both respecting women and expressing emotion in this self-consciously 'woke' and big-hearted caper makes the current lawsuit against Enola’s creative team seem inevitable.
Read More“Between director Todd Phillips’ self-satisfied, pseudo-intellectual musings on the profundity of ‘happy vs sad', and the feverish, frenzied acclaim that the film was released to, I’ve found it hard to reconcile my own mixed response with its public reception.”
Read More“Watching the story unfold is simply extraordinarily fun, a word that I rarely use to describe watching any film.”
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