Sally Field and Kevin Kline in a catty satire of daytime TV - what else could you want? Well, um... an ending that's not gross, for starters. But even beyond that, I think this movie suffers a lot in comparison to obvious reference points like A Fish Called Wanda and Tootsie, which have real plots and not just froth. Stacked cast, though - crazy that you've got RDJ and Whoopi in this and they're not even in the top five most delightful performances.
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Thelma 2024
The post-credits bit where we see footage of the real Thelma (the writer's grandma, I think?) sort of exposes why this film doesn't really soar beyond "polite smiling" territory - it's hard to capture just what makes you love your grandma in a film script without it feeling artificial on some level, in a way that I guess is true of all cinema? But it's especially obvious here that this is a wacky scenario. Still, very good-natured movie.
RIP to Richard Roundtree, who's fantastic in this.
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Megalopolis 2024
Much has been said about this Coppola masterpiece (not irony! this 4-and-a-half-stars is my actual rating for the film), but no one has mentioned the most important aspect of this film, which is that is part of the Scrabble Cinematic Universe.
In the second half of the movie, Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) arranges a meeting at the city bank to figure out why his accounts have been frozen. Present at this meeting is Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza), who is at…
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