I watched just four movies last week.
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- You might not expect a globetrotting thriller about espionage, conspiracies, and secret Nazi fortunes to be incredibly dull, almost stultifying. But if that’s true, you clearly haven’t seen The Holcroft Covenant.
- Bullet Train isn’t nearly as clever as it thinks it is. But it isn’t not clever. A movie doesn’t always have to be wildly original to be fun, and while I can understand why people might find this derivative, even insufferable, I had a lot of fun with it.
- Amsterdam is too meandering for its own good, but it’s well-acted and frequently entertaining along the way.
- It takes too many liberties with Billie Holiday’s life story to be anything but a failure as a biography, but Lady Sings the Blues has some fantastic performances, particularly by Diana Ross and Billy Dee Williams. Pauline Kael wasn’t wrong when she wrote, “Factually it’s a fraud, but emotionally it delivers.”