First feature / The soundtrack transforms a bad script into a very weak movie.
Cast: Ray Wise, Molly Burnett, Arianne Zucker
Director: Natasha Kermani
Writers: Paul Leach, Nicholas Celozzi
Music by David Siebels
Cinematography by Alex Vendler
Film Editing by Richard Nord
Full of clichés and impossibilities, so predictable!
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Robin Williams
Directed by Kirsten Sheridan
Written by Nick Castle, James V. Hart, Paul Castro
Music by Mark Mancina
Cinematography by John Mathieson
Film Editing by William Steinkamp
All the personages except one are lost, stuck with desires that they can’t control
Cast: Olivia Thirlby, John Krasinski, Rosemarie DeWitt, Dylan McDermott, Rhys Wakefield, Justin Kirk
Directed by Ry Russo-Young
Written by Lena Dunham, Russo-Young
Music by Will Bates, Fall On Your Sword
Cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt
Film Editing by John W. Walter
Excellent special effects but repetitive situations, long action sequences that do not bring anything forward, and weak gender representation
Cast: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Tuppence Middleton, Sean Bean, Douglas Booth, Jo Osmond, Terry Gilliam, DooNa Bae, Vanessa Kirby, James D’Arcy
Director: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Screenplay: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Original Music Composer: Michael Giacchino
Summarized: only the perfect (male) match can give sense to a woman’s life. No story to be proud of!
Just like Touchy Feely, a female reacts dramatically when her boyfriend offers her to commit herself more fully to their relationship. Adding to the sequel feeling, both movies stage an adult female, a teenager, and 2 adult males. In both movies, the “mother” is absent.
But instead of defining its personages realistically as they are in Touchy Feely, those in Laggies are inconsistent. A hopefully one-time hiccup in an up-to-now interesting oeuvre.
Cast: Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mark Webber, Ellie Kemper, Jeff Garlin, Kaitlyn Dever
Director: Lynn Shelton
Screenplay: Andrea Seigel
Director of Photography: Benjamin Kasulke
Original Music Composer: Benjamin Gibbard
Some good camera work and dialogues, but an incoherent script
Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen
Director: Sharon Maguire
Writers: Chris Cleave (novel), Sharon Maguire
Music by Barrington Pheloung, Shigeru Umebayashi
Cinematography by Ben Davis
Film Editing by Valerio Bonelli
Besides the difficulties Mary has in her village for being pregnant without having ‘known a man’, nothing in this movie brings any inspiration to a story that certainly needs a more critical approach. The church music sinks the movie irredeemably.
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar Isaac
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writer: Mike Rich
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography by Elliot Davis
Film Editing by Robert K. Lambert, Stuart Levy
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Zoë Kravitz, Kate McKinnon, Ilana Glazer, Demi Moore
Director: Lucia Aniello
Writer: Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs
Cinematographer: Sean Porter
Editor: Craig Alpert
Composer: Dominic Lewis
A bad script that sharp dialogues and a whiff of humor can’t save
Cast: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard, Antoine Lounguine
Director: Julie Delpy
Writer: Julie Delpy, Eugénie Grandval
Cinematographer: Thierry Abrogast
Editor: Virginie Bruant
Composer: Matthieu Lamboley
An ode to the expertise of older people
disappointing, messy script
Cast: Matthew Goode, Stephen Moyer, Joely Richardson
Director: Ronnie Thompson
Writers: Ray Bogdanovich, Dean Lines
Music by Paul Arnold, Andrew Barnabas, Duncan Forbes, Lol Hammond
Cinematography by Arthur Mulhern
Film Editing by Emma Gaffney