{"id":12331,"date":"2022-11-06T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12331"},"modified":"2022-11-06T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:11:01","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12331","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I watched a half dozen movies.<\/p>\n\n\n
\"See<\/a><\/td>\n\"Freebie<\/a><\/td>\n\"Confess,<\/a><\/td>\n\"Weird:<\/a><\/td>\n\"The<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

It doesn’t exactly build a better Mousetrap<\/i>, but SEE HOW THEY RUN<\/strong> is silly and playful almost-deconstruction of the whodunnit. The cast is obviously having a lot of fun with the material.<\/p>\n

Even by the somewhat lax standards of the day, when a car crash could pass for high comedy and racist or homophobic jokes were as casual as could be, FREEBIE AND THE BEAN<\/strong> is pretty dreadful. Chaotic and confusing, baffling even, with wild and messy swings in tone and not a likable, realistic, or even amusing character anywhere in sight.<\/p>\n

CONFESS, FLETCH<\/strong> is a lot of fun, and John Hamm is good in the role. Sure, I’d watch another one of these, if they ever actually get to continue the series. (They do a little last-minute leg-work to set up Fletch’s Fortune<\/i>, a book I didn’t much like but could see them updating well.)<\/p>\n

I’m not sure WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY<\/strong> ever truly rises above the level of bit<\/i>, but it’s a funny bit, and it does take it to some incredibly absurd and silly levels, thanks to an incredibly game cast.<\/p>\n

THE UNFORGIVEN<\/strong> is too long, and the complicated things it wants to say about Native Americans and racism are themselves complicated by no Native Americans actually being in the cast. (And there’s a weird, kind of off-putting romance thread running through the story.) But there are good things about the movie, particularly Lancaster and Hepburn’s performances.<\/p>\n

CAUSEWAY<\/strong> is a slow and quiet movie about the weight of trauma, and I liked it a lot. Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry are both very good in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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