Mes: agosto 2019

Critic David Edelstein previews the latest offerings from Hollywood, and finds even the comedies are grim: Glum though I am about the end of summer, with fall comes … no superhero movies! And no 3-D! Well, a lot less, which means fewer headaches, so sell your Tylenol stock. Fall opened strong last Friday with “Moneyball,” and next Friday brings another bright comedy called “50/50,” after hero Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s odds of surviving his spinal cancer. Yes, it’s grim, too, obviously. But the film is less about his illness than other peoples’ dumb behavior in the face of it. And in the case of Anna Kendrick as his novice therapist, she’s so lovably dumb you’re almost happy a horrific disease helped ’em meet cute. More downbeat than the cancer movie is “Take Shelter,” from brilliant young director Jeff Nichols, about a man played by Michael Shannon ravaged by visions of apocalypse. It’s arty and creepy and as barmy as its hero in the end. But it might just capture the national mood. The downbeat goes on in George Clooney’s latest as director and actor, a political melodrama called “The Ides of March,” starring Ryan Gosling as a campaign aide to lefty presidential candidate Clooney whose high ideals plummet to Earth, don’t cha know, when it’s time to win. I like the first half, before all that smug cynicism. Hollywood’s money is...

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