by
Julien Faddoul
All the
Money in the World *
The kidnapping
of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted
mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the
ransom.
Supposedly a
film about greed, but one that confuses the issues it attempts to explain. The
whole thing is peculiarly old-fashioned and is of interest chiefly for some fun
performances and for production turmoil that unfortunately materializes on
screen.
d – Ridley Scott
w – David
Scarpa (Based on the Book by John
Pearson)
ph – Dariusz Wolski
pd – Arthur Max
m – Daniel
Pemberton
ed – Claire
Simpson
cos – Janty
Yates
p – Chris Clark,
Quentin Curtis, Dan Friedkin, Mark Huffam, Ridley Scott, Bradley Thomas, Kevin
J. Walsh
Cast: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark
Wahlberg, Romain Duris, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Plummer, Andrew Buchan
Jumanji:
Welcome to the Jungle *
Four teenagers
are sucked into a video game version of the Jumanji board game, playing as
their avatars.
A sequel no
one wanted to a film no one cares about. It never quite musters up any genuine
originality, but it works, only intermittingly, when dealing with body-swap
humour.
d – Jake Kasdan
w – Chris
McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinker (Based on the Book by Chris Van Allsburg)
ph – Gyula Pados
pd – Owen Paterson
m – Henry
Jackman
ed – Steve
Edwards, Mark Helfrich
cos – Laura
Jean Shannon
p – William Teitler, Matt Tolmach
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black,
Karen Gillan, Rhys Darby, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Ser'Darius
Blain, Madison Iseman,Morgan Turner
Pitch
Perfect 3
The gang
reunites for one final performance together during an overseas USO tour.
Perfectly
serviceable for anyone who enjoys this series. For others it offers nothing.
d – Trish Sie
w – Kay Cannon,
Mike White (Based on the Book by Mickey
Rapkin)
ph – Matthew Clark
pd – Toby Corbett
m – Christopher
Lennertz
ed – Craig
Alpert, Colin Patton
cos – Salvador
Perez Jr
p – Elizabeth Banks, Paul Brooks, Max Handelman
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp,
Brittany Snow, Hailee Steinfeld, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Alexis Knapp,
Chrissie Fit, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks, John Litghow
Thelma **
A college
student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in
Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of
inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Like all of
Trier’s films, it is beautifully composed. But the allegory here – threatening
telekinesis serving a coming-of-age sexual awakening for a lesbian raised with
staunch religious piety – is a little unfocused in execution.
d – Joachim Trier
w – Eskil Vogt,
Joachim Trier
ph – Jakob Ihre
pd – Roger Rosenberg
m – Ola Flottum
ed – Olivier Bugge
Coutté
cos – Edit
Ellen Dæhli Ystehede
p – Thomas Robsahm
Cast: Eili
Harboe, Kaya Wilkins Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Grethe Eltervåg
The
Greatest Showman
A musical
retelling of the career of PT Barnum.
A cultural
object so deranged, so befuddling, so aggressively unappealing that one will
certainly depart with more questions than they had upon arrival. As a Barnum
biopic the film is 99% fraudulent – characterizing him as some kind of champion
for outsiders or whatever – and as a musical it is 100% inept, with boorish songs and a cast
and director totally at sea as to the difference between cinema and television
advertisements. Truly gross, and something that needs to be seen to be believed.
d – Michael Gracey
w – Jenny
Bicks, Bill Condon
ph – Seamus McGarvey
pd – Nathan Crowley
m – John
Debney, Joseph Trapanese
ed – Tom Cross,
Robert Duffy, Joe Hutshing, Michael McCusker, Jon Poll, Spencer Susser
cos – Ellen
Mirojnick
p – Peter Chernin, Laurence Mark, Jenno Topping
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams,
Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle
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