‘Nomadland’ Film Review: Frances McDormand Hits the Road in Quiet, Lyrical Drama
Chloé Zhao’s film is a gentle, uncommonly rich drama in which the main character hits the road not to get away from home, but to find itSteve Pond | February 18, 2021 @ 12:30 PM Last Updated: February 18, 2021 @ 12:34 PM
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Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” is a tiny indie film on a huge scale, an intimate drama set against the vast spaces of the American West. It’s also a typical production for the young Chinese-American director Zhao in that its cast is made up of non-actors playing themselves, or versions of themselves except that at the center of the film is a two-time Oscar-winning actress whose very presence, you’d think, would upset the delicate balance that Zhao struck in her films “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” and “The Rider.”
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‘I Care a Lot’ Film Review: Rosamund Pike Is Very Bad, and That’s Pretty Good
J Blakeson’s black comedy is a nasty little piece of provocation based around scenery-chewing badness from Pike and Peter DinklageSteve Pond | February 18, 2021 @ 8:05 AM
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“I Care a Lot” is a test that throws a lot of different but related questions at its viewers:
Will you hate the central character, Marla Grayson, even though she’s played by Rosamund Pike, who showed in “Gone Girl” that she’s very, very good at playing very, very bad?
Is it OK to root for her if the people coming after her are very, very bad, too?