Not Comics: CR Film Round-Up

What I've seen recently and sort-of recently, for your not-comics Netflix decision-making and theater-going pleasure:


This is the best thriller I've seen in a long, long time. Granted, I'm not much of a thriller guy. I knew nothing about it when I went in, and still don't know anything about it other than what I saw. I found it very satisfying in a robust, 1970s Hollywood way. As a bonus, there were more attractive women over the age of 35 in this movie than any I've ever seen, but it was good enough I didn't even figure that out until I was thinking about it on the way home.


What a fine career Alec Guinness had.


I've been putting this one off since forever, and now I feel like an idiot. Fun movie.


This was a lot of fun, and just short of crack for people with romantic feelings for journalism, but I can't argue that it's all that good. The problem with the American film version is going to be their conflating the John Simm and James McAvoy roles into one character, who will be so much of a super-reporter that as a result the movie will lose much of its balance.


I wanted to like this in some way a) because I like ambitious creators, and b) so I could let loose with that perverse side we all have that loves defending movies other people dislike. I couldn't do it. Way too precious, way too many lazy performances, a critical lack of narrative momentum. Seann William Scott is totally the Badger, though. Someone should make that movie. It's not like Bob Hoskins is busy.


This one has stuck with me, and I'm not certain why.


I didn't love-love this, but I think it will hold up to repeated viewings. Having John Malkovich's character watch early 1990s Gilad Janklowicz workout videos is as weird and as funny a moment as I've seen in the movies this year. It might be the funniest scene this year, period, if it weren't for...


... this movie, but not this scene. It's the scene where the one woman's fiance joins her in Barcelona and steps off the escalator. For some reason, that killed me both times I saw it. I was inconsolable. Complete character assassination.
 
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