Seberg: Jean Seberg’s life story is incredibly interesting and worth a movie, but as it stands a book or Wikipedia article might still be the most interesting way to take it in. **
Project Power: Another Netflix movie with so much going on that it doesn’t actually come together as anything I can recommend or even say I totally understood. There are special powers and lore, Jamie Foxx and JGL, but this is a diversion more than a movie. **
An American Pickle: This has a lot going on too, but it does come together: there’s a pickle factory, time travel, Jewish history, and Seth Rogen doing the double roles gimmick. Original, funny, and sincere – it is also a trim 90-minutes, which I respect. Excellent HBO Max content. ***3/4
I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Great acting, atmosphere, and Toni By God Collette – but I just don’t get why director guys like Charlie Kaufman became so obsessed with an idea or series of ideas (in this case, time?) that their movie becomes a riddle that I can only recommend to the nerdiest of cinephiles who are willing to not only endure the movie but read about it after. I did that and I’m still not sure I liked it. ***1/4
Yes, God, Yes: The sister from Stranger Things stars in a comedy about a sexual awakening at a Jesus Camp. It feels kind of out of 1998 but it really is perfectly solid in every respect. ***
