Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Calling this film simply “bad” is doing it a disservice, and points perhaps to a lack of imagination on the part of the critic. Every acting choice here is baffling, every line reading wooden and incoherent, every potential dramatic moment sapped of its power by awkward, inscrutable staging. There is not so much a plot as there is a loose string of ideas anchored only by Dakota Johnson’s clammy performance. She appears in this film at all times like an…