Written and Directed by Michael Cristofer
Starring Ana de Armas, Tye Sheridan, Helen Hunt and John Leguizamo
Running Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual references, brief nudity and violent images
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“I am socially awkward.”
I love hotels. It doesn’t matter the locale, whether it is Manhattan or in the sticks of Pennsylvania, spending a night in a hotel makes me feel like I am on an exotic adventure.
Read MoreDirected and co-written by Rick Alverson
Starring Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Hannah Gross and Denis Lavant
Not rated, but there’s a bit of nudity, swearing and some disturbing images of lobotomies
Running time: 1 hour and 46 minutes
by Benjamin Leonard, Best Boy
This is the first film I’ve watched by Alverson and I’d heard his earlier work (Entertainment and The Comedy) proved to be “difficult” for many. The quick and dirty on this film is that it stars Jeff Goldblum as one of the few remaining doctors in the early 1950s to be a proponent of lobotomy and Tye Sheridan plays his photodocumentarian. So I wasn’t exactly sure what to think going into this. My only expectation was that it might be overwhelming at times. For better or worse, that wasn’t the case.
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