Did not expect a Simone Simon vehicle to show us a reflection of our times. Director Robert Wise tells a beautiful story about patriotism and how others can cause us to break our ideals. Simone Simon is gorgeous as the woman committed against fascism who is forced to compromise her patriotism and her femininity for the selfishness of others. This broke my heart. The ending is a tad saccharine but it was 1944.
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I waited way too long to see this but I'm so happy to have it in my life. Caroline Lindy tells a "Drop Dead Fred"-esque story so brilliantly. Melissa Barrera and Thomas Dewey, the latter especially, are charming, swoony, and adorable. The ambiguity of the ending was brilliant. Tops all around.
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I have absolutely no idea who this movie is made for. Honestly, we might need to all just be okay with Willy Wonka not being an interesting character. No one asked for "how he became a capitalist entrepreneur," did we? There are moments where Chalamet is good and as many moments where he feels horribly miscast and is starring a bad SNL skit. Paul King's humor is evident and the production design is beautiful, but the plot is so freaking…
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