Synchronic: 2½
SUPERNOVA: Two top-notch performances and a spare but highly emotional script meld beautifully in this movie. There are tears to come, but even more so a feeling of satisfaction because, as you’ll realize along the way, you’re watching a special film. It’s witty, mature, moving and all about friendship. Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play long-time lovers who go on a road trip to the Lakes District in the north of England to relive some old times. They’re both artistic. Firth is a pianist. Tucci is a novelist, but terrified of the early onset dementia developing in him. “I want to be remembered for who I was, not for who I’m about to become,” he says in one of the stronger pieces of dialogue.
The time has come for even the common squirrel to step up into movie superhero stardom.
In Flora & Ulysses (streaming Friday on Disney+), young human Flora (Matilda Lawler) saves a squirrel s life, only to find the food-crazy mammal, dubbed Ulysses, has extraordinary powers.
It was a tough nut to keep the squirrel grounded in some sense of reality – in keeping with the character from the beloved Newbery Medal-winning 2013 children s book Flora & Ulysses – while also making Ulysses a bona fide hero with powers of flight, the ability to comprehend humans and the desire to fight injustice. I wanted Ulysses to be a legit, hard-core force of nature, says director Lena Khan. It had to be like, I can buy into this superhero.
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