Knives Out - a good movie with a script that is trying to be smarter than it ends up being. It's an ok mystery, the underlying context is a little less solid. Aside from the main character, the women in the story don't get enough to do while the male characters end up having more, not sure if that's Rian Johnson's bias or a statement or what, but it feels a little uneven.
Hail, Caesar! - the Coen brothers look at the movie industry in the early '50s, and while it's a charming look back, it feels uneven and a little hollow. There's a few moments that are real head-scratchers, silly beyond belief, and there are moments that don't add enough or go anywhere despite some real star power. Alden Ehrenreich proves himself quite the talent here, and confirms to me that the problems in Solo: A Star Wars Story were the directors - all 3 of them. Hail Caesar is a film that's too short at 106m, and is shown up a few years later by Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, which does something similar for the next decade, yet puts a lot more weight into its central characters.
Hail, Caesar! - the Coen brothers look at the movie industry in the early '50s, and while it's a charming look back, it feels uneven and a little hollow. There's a few moments that are real head-scratchers, silly beyond belief, and there are moments that don't add enough or go anywhere despite some real star power. Alden Ehrenreich proves himself quite the talent here, and confirms to me that the problems in Solo: A Star Wars Story were the directors - all 3 of them. Hail Caesar is a film that's too short at 106m, and is shown up a few years later by Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, which does something similar for the next decade, yet puts a lot more weight into its central characters.
