On my recent trip I got to watch two movies and offer my brief review:
Barbie: Yeah: cute, amusing, "heart-in-right-place" kind of movie, and Margot is drop dead gorgeous and very likeable. It still felt a little underwhelming to me, but there are many worse movies that have been mega successful, so I'm not going to sweat it.
The Holdovers: as virtually all the reviews say, it's a character driven period piece (set in 1970) that really feels like the character driven movies that came out in that era (or at least, before the summer blockbuster changed the movie business, seemingly forever.) As such, it's a refreshing, welcome revival of the type of movie adults used to enjoy seeing. Nonetheless, I did feel that the ending needed something a bit more cathartic than what we got. Realism is fine, but sometimes we feel it needs more. (I'm sounding a bit like Spielberg, perhaps, who obviously felt exactly the same way regarding how he handled Oskar Schindler's departure scene, which is nearly universally seen as a fault in an otherwise devastating film.)
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