The relationship between the tightly wound, easily irritated, tyrannical artist/genius and the watchful, smart woman who works for him as an assistant and model doesn’t go smoothly.
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FILM REVIEW: Coen brothers’ ‘Hail, Caesar!,’ gently satirizing Hollywood
The Coens provide seamless direction, richly recreating the old film genres and Hollywood without indulging in crude caricature.
FILM REVIEW: ‘The End of the Tour,’ smart, revelatory, worth seeing twice
Much of the talk is about celebrity and how it undermines the humanity of the writer, the gap between the writer’s persona and his reality, and the emptiness of pop culture, which Wallace also loves.
FILM REVIEW: Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’ — another disappointment
Like so many of Allen’s films over the last two decades, “Irrational Man” seems knocked out — an incomplete draft for a film rather than a fully realized work.