Causeway (2022)

Jack and I liked a lot this drama about Lynsey, a brain-injured soldier (Jennifer Lawrence), trying to adjust to her former life in New Orleans. Brian Tyree Henry's layered performance as her friend James is deservedly nominated for the Supporting Actor Oscar as well as a pile of others. Jayne Houdyshell plays her first caretaker and Linda Emond is Lynsey's mother.

It's the feature directing debut of Tony-nominated and Obie-winning theatre director Lila Neugebauer, working from a script co-written by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sander.

Alex Somers' moody score can be streamed on Apple Music and probably elsewhere.

Lawrence was last blogged for Don't Look Up, Henry for Joker, Houdyshell for The Humans, Emond for 3 Generations, and Somers for Together Together.

Besides extensive stage work, Neugebauer directed three episodes of the Sex Lives of College Girls and one each of three other series. This is the first screenplay for all three writers, though Moshfegh and Goebel have another coming this year.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are keeping on the road, averaging 85%, while its audiences are thinking about a detour at 72.

This can be streamed with an Apple TV subscription, and we saw it January 28.