Tag: meryl streep
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Favorite Discoveries of 2023
The best movies I watched this year not released in 2023.
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‘Don’t Look Up’ Isn’t as Smart as It Thinks It Is
Adam McKay’s limitations contaminate more than just the film’s comedy.
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‘The Hours’ Washes Over You
Despite the specificities of its characters’ pain, ‘The Hours’ finds universalities with such resounding precision that you finish it still underneath its clouds.
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Kind of Blue
New movies from Steven Soderbergh, Thomas Vinterberg, and George C. Wolfe.
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‘The Manchurian Candidate’ is an Arresting Thriller
Demme’s movie arguably creeps under the skin more than the more-unanimously acclaimed 1962 cinematization.
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Beauty is Pain in ‘Death Becomes Her’
Hawn and Streep are both terrific.
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‘Postcards from the Edge’ Has an Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Pair in Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine
The film is imperfect and in ways that should be debilitating. But the writing and the performances cushion the blows.
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‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘The Laundromat,’ Reviewed
A look at the latest efforts from Robert Eggers and Steven Soderbergh.
Peterson Reviews 