Unlike the critics, I found this dramedy about grown half brothers meeting up after their estranged father's death mildly entertaining. Ewan McGregor plays Raymond and Ethan Hawke is Ray, very different in personalities despite their father's having cruelly given them the same name, and the acting is good.
Rodrigo Garcia directs from his own thoughtful screenplay, trumpeter Jeff Beal's soundtrack can be streamed on Apple Music, and here's a list of songs.
Full disclosure, I was extremely distracted watching this while transferring files from my old computer to a new one (it did not go smoothly and I'm not totally done yet).
McGregor was last blogged for Beauty and the Beast, Hawke for First Reformed, García for Albert Nobbs, and Beal for The Biggest Little Farm: The Return.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics and audiences don't care whose name is which—they didn't like it one bit, averaging 46 and 55%.
This was made for Apple TV and I streamed it with our subscription on December 13.
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