It’s a holiday weekend, and that means blockbusters! Well, one blockbuster, I guess, and a Tyler Perry movie positioned against it as counterprogramming.
Acrimony: TYLER PERRY PRESENTS A TYLER PERRY PRODUCTION OF A TYLER PERRY FILM ABOUT I DUNNO, INFIDELITY I THINK? But Taraji P. Henson is in it, which automatically elevates it considerably above Tyler Perry’s usual stuff.
C’est La Vie!: This plate-spinning comedy about a wedding at a country estate — from the slicksters who gave us Intouchables — is as busy, as weightless and as French as they come. But everyone looks awfully nice.
The China Hustle: Jed Rothstein’s documentary explores reverse merger fraud, a financial maneuver designed to give questionable Chinese companies a foothold on prestigious Western exchanges — and could maybe have been a little less hysterical about it.
Journey’s End: Jose is impressed by the lack of cliche in Saul Dibb’s tense WWI drama, with Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin and Paul Bettany representing the range of military men who found themselves in the trenches in spring 1918.
Mary Goes Round: I’ve been a booster for Molly McGlynn’s low-key dramedy ever since I saw it back in August, and now it’s finally opening here. You should go see it; Aya Cash is fantastic, and everyone else is pretty great too.
Ready Player One: Glenn is ambivalent on Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s mega-referential VR adventure; I wasn’t around for the press screening, but I’ll be catching up to it sometime in the next few days. Anybody heard anything?
Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan: Like, have you ever wondered where all the really tall buildings came from, man?
That’s that! Go see something. And maybe walk there, it’s really nice out.