on hbo max An author goes on a trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and come to terms with her past. starring meryl streep, candice bergen, gemma chan, lucas hedges, and dianne wiest
This was fine. Hopefully at some point we will get a great Soderbergh film again; since his unretirement, he has been acceptable but not noteworthy. Before the retirement, he used to balance his experiments like Bubble or Full Frontal with some of the best mainstream films out there, but it has been a while since then.
my man might never again reach the high of directing the photography of magic mike xxl but I'll still see everything he does.
When Dianne Wiest ethered Elon Musk in that beautiful monologue at the end I went from liking the movie to really connecting with it. That combined with the beautiful and vivid colors and how much in general I like when movies have shots of the ocean and ships and man I'm into this.
I kept trying to think what the real world equivalent of Alice and her books would be, to get some sense of her place in the world, and it's like maybe The Goldfinch or maybe You Always You Never just doesn't exist in our world also I could watch an entire movie that's just Dianne Wiest and Candice Bergen playing Monopoly and Scrabble and Dianne Weist saying bow down bitch when she plays baby with a triple letter double word score
I really loved this. Modest but deliberately so. And bless him for giving not just the greatest actor to ever live, but underutilized vets like Bergen and Wiest real parts.