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Movie of the week – Things to Come
It’s a busy week for new releases, the best of which is French drama Things to Come. Gallic acting legend Isabelle Huppert delivers one of her finest performances as a philosophy teacher who finds herself having to reinvent her life when her husband leaves her for a younger woman, her mother succumbs to senility and her publishers set about dropping her from their roster. A tribute to strong silent women everywhere.
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Equity
Another female-centric release is financial thriller Equity, which stars Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn as an investment banker who finds her attempts to land a lucrative deal undermined by various opposing forces. The predominantly female cast does great work, but the script is amateurish and never gets under the skin of any of its characters.
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Café Society
Woody Allen has been on an impressive run lately, but his latest, period comic drama Café Society, brings that to an end. Jesse Eisenberg falls for his uncle/boss’s mistress (Kristen Stewart) in 1930’s Hollywood. The film looks great but there’s little of substance here.
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Morgan
Two of the year’s worst films open this week. Morgan is a dumb, derivative sci-fi thriller that wastes an impressive ensemble cast. Directed by Ridley Scott’s son, Luke, this one takes the central theme of Blade Runner and twists it into a by the numbers slasher movie topped off with the year’s most predictable twist.
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax
The 9th Life of Louis Drax stars Fifty Shades of Grey’s Jamie Dornan in a supernatural thriller that can’t figure out if it’s a coming of age drama or a dark fantasy. As tedious as they come.
By Eric Hillis of themoviewaffler.com