Today’s premieres will make us forget that the card got out of hand at Christmas, that we’re on a diet, and that we haven’t signed up for the gym or English class yet.
The first to help with that is a triple XL format Russell Crowe who has directed, written and acted in a less playful film than the title ‘Pokerface’ should have. He himself reserves the role of an eccentric millionaire who gathers his best friends to play a strange game of poker where some secrets are revealed. The bad thing is that, without being invited, the rich man’s family and some rather unpleasant thieves show up.
I will tell you as an anecdote that our Elsa Pataky plays a very short role, but that does not make a film that is too routine and that does not give what is expected, even if little is expected, any better. It’s a movie that bluffs, and it doesn’t take much footage to realize it’s not what it claims to be. One waits all the time for a four-of-a-kind to come out, or for the manager to conjure up an ace, but in the end it is the bank that wins, not the spectator. So one leaves the timba (sorry, the cinema) as if they had traded a Rolex for a Casio, or a Ferrari for a Twingo.
Since we’re talking about stars in movies crashing, we’ll go next with one where screen monsters Robert de el Río Niro and John Malkovich sign another food work where they play two secondary characters in the story of an unlikely ex-drug addict with a turbulent past who plunges into those roads to avenge his partner’s death.
While we miss Liam Neeson, it’s just another rampant violence from a good man killing a lot of bad guys. The only possible novelties are the different modalities they load into (it’s worthy of a hard-working ‘The Simpsons’ writer to find original deaths at this point). But what’s really criminal is that established actors tarnish their careers with it. I understand that the retirement age should be pushed back and that Escrivá will be happy, but making them work on these films is unbearable cruelty.
Let’s clean it up a bit with a Mexican romantic comedy that has no pretense other than to make people laugh with any intelligence (and no mariachis). Verónica Echegui acts as a translator for an English author who has only found success in the Aztec country, thanks to the salacious version the girl has made of her book. Cultural misunderstandings and clashes between two very different personalities lead to a plot that we all know how it will end. Valentine’s commercial with no alibi to amuse you,
Now we are going to get exquisite with a period drama. A biography of the nineteenth-century writer Emily Brontë, the author of ‘Wuthering Heights’, played phenomenally by Emma Mackey, the best actress of the series ‘Sex Education’, who shows here that she was not by chance. She supports the film, she perfectly reflects the complex personality of this writer, her emotions, dreams and aspirations. Creation as torment, as an inevitable fate told from the best British classicisms.
At last year’s FICC, they brought us the Iranian ‘Holy Spider: holy spider’, about the investigation of a journalist in a holy city of Islam into the murder of prostitutes. As was the case in the USSR in “Citizen X” (1995), which denied the existence of psychopaths in the communist paradise, here the theocracy almost applauds a bloodthirsty purifier of sinners. One of the best jobs from last year.
Off-camera, the Golden Globes have returned with the splendor of yesteryear, though they’re still the closest thing to the fairground camel race, when no one thought there would be redemption (Prince Harry, don’t lose hope). Spielberg kicked off an awards season that will be very good with that film, which is almost his cinematic testament, titled ‘The Fabelmans’. I’m especially happy with the award for an underrated actress named Jennifer Coolidge, who gave the best speech of the night.
Have a movie week.
Source: La Verdad
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