Film & Tv
- I guessed the big plot twist about ten minutes into the movie, and was gratified that it was fully revealed halfway through so that the implications could be played out. They were nuanced in a nice way, and I loved the way a bunch of the women banded together for a little detective caper. Joanna Scanlan was especially funny.
- Watched on Friday January 17, 2025.
- Much like Martin's memoir "Born Standing Up", this film left me unsatisfied that I truly understood much about his private self apart from the sadness and drive to escape from his cold, unsympathetic parents. But unlike that book, there is some closure provided here — both with an eventual reconciliation with his dad, but more importantly with his second marriage and fatherhood. Seeing his eyes light up whenever his daughter is mentioned or present is incredibly sweet. He has found the missing piece at last.
- The reviews and Guadagnino's earlier work made me think this would have a lot more sex in it. Don't get me wrong, it is sexY, but that has more to do with the tantalizing uncertainty of what these messed up people are about and where they will go next in their tennis careers than anything that happens in the bedroom. And boy, does it work!
- This was quite entertaining to watch with family while talking back at the screen.
- It kept me engaged, though it was kind of silly how many Poe story references they jammed into the movie. It was a Poe-A-Palooza!
- Love the gentle exploratory quality of this doc, but feel it could have been a bit more probing while remaining kind.
- Well, that was fucking depressing.
- It's been a while since a movie has made me laugh this much, but the merger with the MCU has also brought some bloat to the proceedings. In the last third I was really wishing that Deadpool would puncture the long, overly earnest stretches with some commentary, and was too often left wanting. Also, I have to think the TVA stuff flew completely over the heads of those who haven't seen the Loki TV show — and now we have all the X-Men movie history added into the mix. Yeesh! But there are some truly hilarious scenes in this movie […]
- This really didn't work for me. Basing the story on a real person — who committed no murders! — and then having the character commit a murder that is treated like a warm and fuzzy coda is just weird and repugnant. The way the romance was handled was also not appealing. Meh!