I watched another 6 movies last week:
- Daisy Ridley delivers such a quietly understated and socially awkward performance in Sometimes I Think About Dying, and I think I kind of unexpectedly loved it.
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is certainly clever and inventive and pointed when it wants to be, even if I’m not convinced it needs to be as long as it is.
- The best thing The Pope’s Exorcist has going for it–maybe the only particularly good thing–is Russell Crowe. But he delivers such a fun, over-the-top performance that I could not help but be entertained.
- Brooklyn 45 stumbles a little near the end–I think I would have preferred a slightly cleverer ending, something to make the whole thing feel a little less repetitive–but the cast, particularly Anne Ramsay, turn in such strong performances, and the movie makes such effective use of its locked-room set.
- There are very good performances in All Creatures Here Below, from Dastmalchian’s barely controlled anger to Gillan’s oddly childlike brokenness. The film arguably tosses one too many tragic cliches into the mix, but those performances, along with the naturalistic direction, keep everything surprisingly grounded.
- I just did not find Guarding Tess funny. Like, at all. What little it has going for it, in the pairing of Cage and MacLaine, is lost in a very dumb and belabored kidnapping subplot late in the movie.
