Critic’s Pick
Shockingly urgent and surprisingly funny.
‘One Battle After Another’
The latest from the director Paul Thomas Anderson centers on Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), a washed-up revolutionary who must save his daughter from an old rival.
From our review:
It’s a carnivalesque epic about good and evil, violence and power, inalienable rights and the fight against injustice; it’s also a love story. The film speaks to the failures of the past and of the present but insists on the promise of the future. It’s brilliantly directed, but what makes it exhilarating is that it engages with its moment as few American fiction films do. It feels shockingly urgent. It’s also snort-out funny, even when its laughs tremble with rage.
In theaters. Read the full review.
A web of lies, a messy debut.
‘Eleanor the Great’
Directed by Scarlett Johansson, this dark comedy follows a grieving elderly woman who lies about surviving the Holocaust and the young journalist who wants to write her story.
From our review:
The elements here are good, and the pieces are all there — they’re just out of balance with one another. There’s enough in “Eleanor the Great” to still make it watchable, especially the genuinely moving intergenerational connection between two women who need each other to move past their particular grief. If only the world around them had been developed more carefully, too.
In theaters. Read the full review.
Critic’s Pick
An A+ in chemistry.
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