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), and an explosive hail-Mary finale so sublimely ridiculous it defies both good sense and gravity.
(It helps, perhaps, that several main players have no hair to singe.)
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And Nixon vividly telegraphs both her characters convictions and her deep physical and emotional suffering.
But Cedar doesnt seem to trust the depth and width of his story.
Consider the whole quotemarky Its just a joke!
tone of online discourse, the rise of smirking insincerity as a political mode and an intellectual dialectic.
Like so much about Condons film, the new songs are perfectly fine, but theyre just not transporting.
More than movies or theme parks, Disney has always been in the business of selling magic.
Absurdity isnt always the mark of simplicity, however.
Its more about the bedrock friendship between three lonely old men.
Its a character movie, not an action movie.
And were always laughing with the characters, not at them and how old they are.
In the new version, Joe, Willie, and Albert watchThe Bacheloretteand get really invested the outcome.
They smoke pot with a gangster and get the munchies.
They attempt a practice heist on a supermarket and get away on a motorized old-folks scooter.
Ann-Margret even pops up as a horny, hot-to-trot grandma to lob lusty innuendos at Arkin.
I kept waiting for someone to make a joke about the size of his prostate.
Eventually the movie gives up theGhost, and settles for a gorgeous shell.B
Metacritic: 52
