The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the film industry. Movie theaters continue to operate with enhanced health and safety measures, following CDC recommended COVID-19 safety guidelines. Some films are tentatively scheduled for big-screen releases while others will be available digitally via video on demand.
âThe Mitchells vs. The Machinesâ
Genre: Comedy and animation
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Mike Rianda, Eric Andre, Olivia Colman, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Conan O Brien, Sasheer Zamata, Elle Mills, Jay Pharoah, Alex Hirsch, and Griffin McElroy
Directors: Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe
Rated: PG
Review: Close, Kunis effective in addiction drama Four Good Days
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Hitting every mark of convention with a clockwork precision, the addiction/recovery family drama
Four Good Days resembles nothing so much as a production assembly line of cliches. Granted, there is a limited repertoire to these stories. The addict hits rock bottom and desperately climbs back up to the family for help. Suspicion, distrust, betrayal, anger, and hope are the emotional strata here, here being the perfectly curated suburbia of Deb (Close) and her husband Chris (Root), surrounded by the all too familiar signifiers of white, middle-class, semi-retired coziness. He fiddles around with his guitar collection, she enjoys games of solitaire on her tablet with a side of white wine. But what is that knocking, who could be at the door, disrupting this blissful quiescence of twilight harmony? Oh, it’s just Molly (Kunis), the heroin addict daughter, neither seen nor heard from in quite some time. Has she come to further appropriate valuable items with which to slake her dependenc
âFour Good Daysâ: a daughterâs addiction, a motherâs love
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated April 28, 2021, 11:35 a.m.
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Glenn Close (left) and Mila Kunis in Four Good Days. Vertical Entertainment
When we say an actor is giving a performance thatâs âvanity-free,â it usually means theyâre griming up and letting their hair down, and thereâs actually a fair amount of vanity involved. One nice thing about Mila Kunisâs portrayal of a heroin addict in Rodrigo GarcÃaâs âFour Good Daysâ is that the vanityâs up front, in the character and in the starâs nervy embrace of a woman who has become human wreckage.