Nope: Love Jordan Peele – 3/3, feed me more. First of all: wow. The small-scale tension (that monkey…) early was a blast, as was the big-scale filmmaking (they were riding horses!) I wish I saw in a big theatre. Keke Palmer was amazing, as was the incorporation of cinema and UFO lore into almost every gorgeous frame of this sci-fi Western horror movie… film. ****1/2
To Leslie: Andrea Riseborough plays Leslie, a single mother and alcoholic who is broke only a few years after winning the lottery. It could’ve easily been too bleak or melodramatic but ended up just great, with empathy for its’ characters plus Marc Maron doing a decent accent and a few bursts of Allison Janney yelling at people. ****
Raymond & Ray: Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor as half-brothers burying their father and Going Through Stuff should’ve been a layup. I wish it was better. **3/4
Wendell & Wild: 2009’s Coraline is one of my favorite movies, and this was director Henry Selick’s first movie since. As a bonus, he wrote it with Jordan Peele! And it starred Key and Peele! And it was… pretty good, maybe not as atmospheric or affecting as Coraline and sometimes more into being weird and kooky than actually good… but ultimately it was pretty good. ***3/4
The Worst Person in the World: This was the one people liked, huh? Renate Reinsve is really great and because it spans four years its’ characters were able to grow, but it just felt more like disappointing TV miniseries than acclaimed movie. Maybe I missed something. Maybe it’s on me. ***
