The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep

Bleecker Street etc.

September 16, 2020

Historical Drama

DVD
C-

I would've rated this lower if I hadn't tuned out before it got violent.  Yuval Adler directed and co-wrote.

Save Yourselves!

Save Yourselves!

Bleecker Street etc.

October 2, 2020

Comedy

DVD

C-

This felt like a not particularly funny satire of many acquaintances I knew in Seattle in the 2000s (although the couple is from Brooklyn and this is recent).  And I guess it becomes sci-fi comedy sometime after the first quarter hour.  Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson co-directed and co-wrote.

Nostalgia

Nostalgia

Bleecker Street

February 16, 2018

Drama

DVD
C-

Different kinds of appraisal.  Mark Pellington directed and co-wrote, after Arlington Road in the '90s and Henry Poole Is Here in the '00s.

Logan Lucky

Logan Lucky

Bleecker Street

August 9, 2017

Dramedy

DVD
C-

Wikipedia has this as a "heist comedy," but the first quarter hour is more of a downbeat family dramedy.  Steven Soderbergh directed.

Hotel Mumbai

Hotel Mumbai

Bleecker Street etc.

10 October 2018

Action

DVD
D+

A true story of terrorism, directed and co-written by Anthony Maras.

Disobedience

Disobedience
Bleecker Street
10 September 2017
Drama
DVD
D

An annoying woman goes to her father the rabbi's funeral.  This is based on the Naomi Alderman novel and directed by Sebastián Lelio.

Danny Collins

Danny Collins
Bleecker Street
March 20, 2015
Dramedy
DVD
D

An over-the-hill rock star (Pacino) worships John Lennon so he indulges in cocaine, vanity, and egregious sexism.  Apparently his life changes when he gets a 40+-year-old letter, but I wasn't going to stick around to find out.  Dan Fogelman wrote and directed.

Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic
Bleecker Street
July 8, 2016
Dramedy
DVD
C-

A father (Mortensen) raises his six kids in the woods, but it's the modern era.  Matt Ross wrote and directed.

Beirut

Beirut
Bleecker Street
April 11, 2018
Historical Drama
DVD
C-

A diplomat (Hamm)'s wife is killed at a dinner party in Beirut in 1972, then it's ten years later and he sits lost in thought in a car.  Then I tuned out.  Brad Anderson directed.