At Eternity’s Gate: A Julian Schnabel film, so between Willem Dafoe doing some very good acting a lot of long blurry tracking shots of grass and shit. And that’s not a knock, it’s a heck of a way to present a movie sometimes. I’m not sure or not if this is a good Van Gogh biopic, or even a good movie. I’m glad it exists but I’m not sure I’d actually recommend it, basically. ***
A Private War: Rosamund Pike acts the shit out of a fearless war correspondent and she’s surrounded by a very… straightforward movie. **1/2
Bumblebee: This went back to the dumb fun type of Transformers movie unlike the last few over-long and cynical ones, though it’s more good compared to those last few movies and not actively good. Not enough John either. **
Vox Lux: I am not sure what anyone was going for here, but I’m just going to tell you right now that this movie starts with a shooting of a teacher inside a school and it is jarring. Then it’s about Natalie Portman playing a flawed pop star. She is good. I don’t think the movie is. **1/4
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: The subject of this story is maybe the most impressive kid ever but it’s the most formulaic of movies, like if Hallmark did a movie in Africa. **
