After Okja and Parasite, I was excited to see the next work of art from the same director. Sadly, I couldn't wait for Mickey 17 to end, and I left the theater feeling so disappointed.
The movie follows Mickey, a kindhearted but unremarkable person who joins a colony ship while fleeing a loan shark and signs up as an "expendable" to get a spot on board. Expendables are humans whose personality and memories are downloaded onto a (literal) brick, and…
Encanto is a cute, serviceable Disney movie that occasionally lands a great laugh, but it’s overall just ok. The songs are closer to hip hop than the classic Disney singalong style, which is fine, except when they’re using the songs to explain a character and you can’t catch all of what they’re saying. The plot is pretty minimal, with little in the way of surprises, and a lot of the story moves through characters directly narrating it. If someone achieves…
Nashville is a kaleidoscope view of America presented via the stories of some two dozen characters - famous singers, wannabes, hangers-on, managers, family members, and those whose lives intersect with the others - in the days leading up to the political rally of Hal Phillip Walker, eccentric third-party candidate for President. Told through a series of intersecting vignettes rather than through the development of any small subset of characters, Nashville is an often-funny satire of America from a variety of…
Letter Never Sent is a man-versus-nature survival story with a backdrop of Soviet nationalism. Four geologists head to the Siberian wilderness in search of diamonds. Theirs is the latest in a series of failed expeditions that returned no results, but much depends on the explorations, as success would free the country from a reliance on foreign diamonds.
The movie's title relates to the letter Konstantin, the apparent group leader, is writing to his wife throughout the expedition. It's an interesting…
