Reviews

By the time the last act rolled around, Id pretty much tired of the film repeatedly leveraging violence against women for thrills and as a motivation for the main character.

Leclercs character and performance really grew on me as the film went on, and Denise went from feeling like a caricature to perhaps the most interesting character in the film.

There is a scene in this film where Hepburns Jo, dressed all in black, does an absolutely hilarious interpretive dance in a Parisian cafe.

Mary is an interesting character, a woman who made an incredible scientific discovery at the tender age of 11---a nearly complete fossil of a dinosaur---and has ground away for decades with the tangential knowledge that were she a man, shed be far more respected and resourced.

In this film, however, Dianes manipulations and Franks lunkiness dont collide in any kind of satisfying way.

While its not exactly a new theme, the way that the film explores the idea of what it means to be a monster is done well.

The film has a pretty deft hand in the way that it balances poking fun at its cast of characters and also evokes something of the magic of theater and also the more general magic of being surrounded by people who are just as passionate about your interests as you are.

Many aspects of his character (and of the structure of the film itself) evoke the Columbo mysteries in a good way.

I honestly would normally have mixed feelings about a film where each segment was something you knew was going to end with a downer, but theres enough variation and creativity in the different segments that it doesnt just feel like youre always waiting for the punchline.

In this film, we see a future where violence and death are wedded to commercial exploitation, and how the two main characters must recalibrate their point of view as that old human emotion---love---rears its ugly head.