It’s that time of year again when the film industry piles on tons of accolades through award shows. Here’s my take on what I’ve seen lately:
unexplored
Uncharted, starring Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland, is an ultralight Indiana Jones meets Pirates of the Caribbean. Unfortunately, there’s not enough here to warrant your attention unless you’re watching with your 12-16 year old.
6 minutes to midnight
Minutes to Midnight, starring Eddie Izzard and the usually reliable Judi Dench, has a decent enough plot: 20 German girls, all daughters of German officers or dignitaries, are students at a finishing school in England. By the late summer of 1939, they become potential political pawns as Hitler’s designs on Poland become apparent to the world.
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans, featuring Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle and a personal best from Paul Dano, is an overlong semi-biographical account of Steven Spielberg’s upbringing and artistic origins. It’s fine in some places, tedious in others. The general question is, if it wasn’t about Spielberg, would you watch it for two and a half hours? Would anyone care? possibly
The Banshees of Inisherin
Bringing together Irish actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges), this film is a reasonably excellent character study, about a third of the way through. Then it enters the theater of the absurd, with a warped plot and premise like you’d find in a John Irving novel made into a movie. Mixing the ridiculous with the horrible, this movie is not worth watching. No matter the rave reviews it’s getting all over the world, you don’t want to see this and you don’t need to.
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