But we must steel ourselves, I’m afraid, for a lot of them to fall flat.
Starting with Netflix’sMalcolm & Marie.
The premise even sounds like an acting exercise, and it absolutely plays out like one, too.
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“They come home how do they feel?
Who has the power?
That’s how the whole thing comes across, and it makes the film shapeless, the conflict arbitrary.
Meanwhile the dialogue, which ought to seem spontaneous, is overwritten almost to the point of absurdity.
It’s simultaneously half-baked and overdone.
The actors both unreasonably beautiful, and with presence to spare do their best with what they’re given.
They lack chemistry, however, and they’re really in a no-win situation.
These are made-up people trying to make up fights.
The sequences almost dare you to write criticism of the movie in which he’s saying it.
That’s proving his point!
It’s playing his game!
Well, don’t worry I won’t search for meaning or authenticity here.
I’d be looking a long time.D+
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