The wry tone and gun-and-run blandness of a lot of the visuals definitely marks this as a product of mid-nineties independent film. The cast is exceptional all around; it's especially joyful to revisit Parker Posey at the height of her era of tangy comic contempt. I think there might be one big relationship betrayal too many for a film that takes place over the course of only twelve hours or so, but most of the jokes and intertwined emotional beats do land.
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Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb 2022
I'm amazed and delighted that director Lizzie Gottlieb manages to make the hunt for a pencil in a publishing office more tense and thrilling than anything in a hyperkinetic action movie.
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I'm Your Woman 2020
Director Julia Hart (who is also co-credited on the screenplay) brings smart, lean storytelling to the film, judiciously employing neo-noir trappings. She has a particular panache for understated conflict, lending the material an air of battered accuracy that recalls the grit-and-grime cinema of the nineteen-seventies era in which the film is set. Rachel Brosnahan is very good in the lead role, conveying that discomfort and dawning confidence of a person who was expecting that self-sufficiency wasn’t an attribute she’d be needing in her life.
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Between the Lines 1977
Watching convivial misfits scuffle along at an alternative weekly newspaper in the mid-nineteen-seventies is very much my thing. Joan Micklin Silver directs deftly, especially because the screenplay often feels like it wants to be a television series rather than a movie. John Heard is terrific as an acclaimed but challenging reporter, and the supporting cast delivers fun, inventive work.
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