Like a painting of a mountain after it rains by an artist you can't remember. Kim's character talks to three friends, watches three black and white images, and three men stand with their backs to the camera. She doesn't give much away until the very end, though she's clearly looking for something by repeating the anecdote about her husband thinking people in love should never be apart. The last friend says repetition is insincere. Men cause difficulties in the three…
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019
A reactionary fantasy of American iconography: fast cars, advertisements, cheap food, violent men and skinny dancing women, even before it gets to its revisionist climax. A star-vehicle for Pitt and DiCaprio (Robbie's hardly in this) to play characters experiencing a loss in popularity, and thus reason for being, they have never gone through; a false mourning if there ever was one. Formless enough, in its editing and jukebox style, to mitigate any introspection in terms of this loss and not be particularly interesting in its conservatism. Let's not settle for this only because it's the first big non-Disney film in a while.