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Triangle of Sadness (2022)::rating::3.5::rating::3.5::rating::3.5
M uch like this year’s The Menu, Triangle of Sadness takes aim at the pinkies-out dilettantes who punish the world with their platinum-coated sense of entitlement.  Despite this similarity, the two films are actually defined by their differences:  Triangle is broader, bolder, and more sweepingly ambitious than its satirical cousin.  That’s not to say it’s the better film.…
January 26, 20230Comments
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To Leslie (2022)::rating::4.5
T o Leslie sent my thoughts back to a similar film, Hillbilly Elegy.  In that middling, piddling, manipulative hooey, millionaire actors slap on prosthetics and moth-eaten flannel.  For two hours, they bark at each other in flimsy redneck accents in a blatant attempt to chase down Oscars.  It was hollow, predictable, poorly-written tripe, a fact made…
January 24, 20230Comments
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The Menu (2022)::rating::3.5
I managed a wine store for almost fifteen years, and I affectionately remember some of the pretentious wine reviews that hung from the shelves.  My favorite was attached to a Spanish red, which boasted it had a “firm international structure.”  Now, if anybody anywhere knows what in the holy honey-baked hell that means, I…
January 17, 20230Comments
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The Fabelmans (2022)::rating::5
W hen he directed Jaws in 1975, Steven Spielberg was hailed as a wunderkind and an overnight sensation.  The truth is that Spielberg had been cranking out movies for most of his young life.  As a precocious teenager, his amateur oeuvre was both irresistibly innocent and sweepingly ambitious:  A spate of homemade Westerns and WWII battle epics…
December 16, 20220Comments
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Ticket to Paradise (2022)::rating::2
I f they handed out a generic award for Best-Looking Movie of 2022, Ticket to Paradise would be on the noms list.  As a squabbling, middle-aged couple, George Clooney and Julia Roberts are as photogenic as ever.  Their daughter? Beautiful, as you would expect.  The locations?  You couldn't CGI something prettier.  Hell, even the chittering, man-eating dolphins…
December 14, 20220Comments
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Tár (2022)::rating::4.5
A s we meet Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), somewhere in the deep of middle age, she's already a woman with nothing left to prove.  When she sits for an interview at The New Yorker Festival (where Adam Gopnik plays himself), Tár's résumé is read aloud, and her accomplishments are stunning.  She's an EGOT winner, and…
December 9, 20220Comments

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