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Writer-director John Krasinski’s absolute desperation to whip up magical whimsy utterly fails. No matter how he tries to force enchantment into existence, this is more fever dream than flight of fancy.
Marisa Abela is very good as Amy Winehouse, the one saving grace of this cowardly biopic of the wild and wise musician, which hangs its subject out to dry just as the people closest to her did, too.
This mess isn’t as clever as it thinks it is, and wastes the small charms of the delicious chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Feels like they shot a dashed-off first draft of the script.
2021 documentary Mothers of the Revolution is on Prime and Apple TV on both sides of the Atlantic.
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2020’s The Assistant is on Kanopy in the US, BFI Player in the UK (and on lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic, too).
It exists safely within the vast subgenre of postcollapse afterscapes, but it does what it does well, with nicely drawn characters, a sense of cultural mythmaking, and freakishly unsettling creatures.
2016’s Train to Busan leaves US Netflix soon; on Studiocanal Presents in the UK (and lots of other services on both sides of the Atlantic).
The pleasures of this black comedy about London real estate and the hypocrisies of posh professionals lie in the terrific cast, especially Shirley Henderson, embodying entertainingly horrible people.
The 2015 documentary Amy is on Max in the US and on Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
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