Hard to rate cuz it’s a five star movie in terms of vibes and viewing experience but I do wish there was a little more there there. Miss Reggie, my queen, you are lovely and charming and smart and I wish you had any motives besides not dying and trying to get in Cary Grant’s pants.
On second thought, those are two perfectly reasonable driving forces.
A fine enough movie that’s getting docked for not being half as charming or clever as the first two. Wish it were actually about the mixed feelings of living in diaspora instead of just hand-waving and saying it is. Olivia Colman and Antonio Banderas are fun, but having two half villains does not add up to a whole Nicole Kidman or Hugh Grant. This doesn’t like ruin anything for me, but I am a little nervous to go back to…
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There was a q&a with the writer-directors after the showing, and I can’t stop thinking about how they said they wanted to make a movie where the ideas were the horror, where the tensions ratchets up through discussion alone. And yes, I think the movie a good job of that (though only really in the first half). But bros… the horror is not someone saying that polygamy was justification for extramarital affairs. Mormons can see that any day of the…
This movie is so deeply about class and race and, interestingly, not religion. Honestly surprised at how quietly but firmly it highlights the racism of rural Idaho (maybe bc Nacho Libre plays so fast and loose with race??). I wouldn’t say any character is complex, but they are all real, and the non-white characters’ unapologetic rootedness in their cultures comes off as tender and charming, rather than cheap caricature. If racism is taught and learned, it’s like Napoleon’s inability to…
