WOMEN TALKING (2022)
“Being a worthy story does not a good movie make”
Read MoreWITHOUT FILM, SOMETHING SLEEPS INSIDE US AND SELDOM AWAKENS. THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.
“Being a worthy story does not a good movie make”
Read More“1950s period piece about haute couture clothing is a film TAILOR MADE for a costuming Oscar nod”
Read More“Just watch Ikiru”
Read More“extremely emotionally manipulative but without completely sacrificing its worthiness”
Read More“a vast vacuous CGI plain of mediocrity, quickly losing any of the drive, excitement or sheer fun that you expected”
Read More“She is master of the screen and drug me into the dusty distance”
Read More“a solid workmanlike tight 90”
Read More“It’s empty scaffolding propping up a digital rotted foundation”
Read More“left adrift in its empty playground of trivial violence and vacant reflection”
Read More“a film that, beyond the short story premise of intrigue and stakes, falls genuinely flat”
Read More“Once implanted with Lil’ Jesus, the woman is taken by a goblin/troll/demon/rock man to a cage and lowered to the upper ring of hell (?) to have a smoke worm of Satan wriggle into her. I have no idea…”
Read More“not much pops story, effects, or franchise wise”
Read More“Their (acting) chops let the flavor of the cinematic meal broil.”
Read More“Chalemet is at his twinKing finest”
Read More“maudlin and measured.”
Read More“I just hoped for more outright levity than the blood from a stone histrionic humor we pick out of the vomit and sandy crumbs”
Read More“breathes a dying vigor into the celluloid whisper of a conflict long past”
Read More“Surprisingly delightful oasis for parents in a sea of drudgery and inequities.”
Read More“a devilish little horror escapade with some capitalistic & mechanical creep”
Read More“a tapestry of disdain and depression; for progenitor, protagonist, and participant.”
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