Greta Gerwig, Oppenheimer, Barbie & The Bear
Kermode & Mayo’s Take
The Importance of Context
This is one of the dramas in which the actors really inhabit the role. The issues are sort of the same as they were before. There are five conversations going on at any, at any one time. This chaotic mally that kind of makes the cooking scene from Goodfellers seem positively dialed down. You have Bob Odenkirk as uncle, not your uncle. Jamie Lee Curtis as the mum who is just getting increasingly raffled and increasingly drunk and increasingly kind of out of control. And so we build towards the opening and each one of the, each, each member of the car starts to grow. It is more expansive that you get to see the characters grow. I
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