Our critic Manohla Dargis didn't see eye to eye with the festivalgoers, writing that the indie tale of a 20-something finding himself "isn't much of a search. He's pretty much the exact same easygoing, uninteresting guy at the end of the movie that he is at the beginning." |
Also streaming is "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande" (on Hulu), another Sundance title, this one starring Emma Thompson as a widow who feels sexually unfulfilled and hires a male prostitute to rectify that. This Critic's Pick had festivalgoers talking about a scene in which the actress bares all, and she spoke to our reporter Nicole Sperling about how difficult that was to do on camera: "To be truly honest, I will never ever be happy with my body." |
There are still plenty of movies hitting theaters only, starting with Pixar's "Lightyear." The origin story for the "Toy Story" character features a brief kiss between two women, which has gotten it banned or restricted in parts of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Our critic A.O. Scott notes that the characters' "marginality to the main plot makes it feel as if the filmmakers were content to check a diversity box, pat themselves on the back and move on." Still, he calls it "good-enough entertainment." |
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