Our favorite character was Aubrey Plaza's reporter named Wow Platinum, played with her reliable snark and cunning. My least favorite character was Nathalie Emmanuel's Julia Cicero, daughter of Esposito's character, who is inexplicably in love with and protective of her father's rival, despite his having no redeeming qualities. Hundreds of other actors, including Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Coppola's sister Talia Shire, her son Jason Schwartzman, and Dustin Hoffman, do what they can under the circumstances .
Osvaldo Golijov's majestic soundtrack can be streamed on Apple Music.
At first we were captivated by the aforementioned production design by Beth Mickle and Bradley Rubin and photography by Mihai Malaimare Jr. As an acrophobe, I noticed how many scenes involved heights and scaffolding. I thought of Batman's Gotham City, Blade Runner, and finally Babylon, which was worse than this by far. We enjoyed shots of (or were they computer-generated?) the Chrysler building, a circus sequence, and an antique subway car with wicker benches, which kept us entertained from time to time but...
...at some point during its 2:18 running time I wondered if we should just turn it off, but Jack reminded me we had paid $19.99 to rent it so we should keep going!
My friend in Los Angeles, who knows a lot about movies, said "the story was so convoluted and characters so underdeveloped that it was hard to care about any of them," and that two groups of people walked out of the theatre before it was over.
Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences are fleeing for the suburbs with averages of 46 and 35%. We rented it on Apple TV on November 29.
My friend in Los Angeles, who knows a lot about movies, said "the story was so convoluted and characters so underdeveloped that it was hard to care about any of them," and that two groups of people walked out of the theatre before it was over.
Coppola and Golijov were last blogged for Tetro, Driver for Ferrari, Esposito for Okja (despite dozens of TV and other credits since then), Plaza for My Old Ass, LaBeouf for Pieces of a Woman, Voight for Four Christmases, Fishburne for Ant-Man and the Wasp (after which he was briefly noted for Death to 2020 and Death to 2021 and not mentioned for 89 episodes of Black-ish), Hunter for The Tragedy of Macbeth (and not mentioned as the diminutive madam in Poor Things), Schwartzman for Quiz Lady, Hoffman for The Meyerowitz Stories, and Malaimare for Jojo Rabbit.
Emmanuel has a number of credits, including 38 episodes of Game of Thrones, which I did not watch. Shire is best known for the Godfather and Rocky franchises and has dozens of other credits–we saw her most recently in two episodes of Grace and Frankie and one of Abbott Elementary. Mickle has worked on several movies I've liked, including Sugar, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and has been nominated by her peers in the Art Directors Guild for her work on Drive and more. Rubin designed three other features and five episodes of the pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death.
Rotten Tomatoes critics and audiences are fleeing for the suburbs with averages of 46 and 35%. We rented it on Apple TV on November 29.
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