Kevin Kline – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

THE GOOD HOUSE – Review by April Neale

September 22, 2022September 23, 2022 April Neale Beverly D'Angelo, Kevin Kline, maya forbes, Paul Guilfoyle, sigourney weaver, The Good House, Wallace Wolodarsky

Sometimes, the illusion of having it all together is an art in survivor subterfuge, especially when you are a kingfisher in a small Massachusetts coastal town where the prime properties are the big catch. The Good House is a bittersweet dramedy starring Sigourney Weaver as Hildy Good, a well-educated local New England real estate agent whose story shows us how the ignored loose ends of our lives can be the undoing of the fabric that holds us together, and that the value of old and real friendships that stand the test of time is a priceless commodity to preserve at all costs.

Festivals Reviews

THE STARLING (TIFF2021) – Review by Leslie Combemale

September 14, 2021September 14, 2021 Leslie Combemale 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Kline, Loretta Devine, Melissa McCarthy, rosalind chao, the starling, Theodore Melfi, TIFF

Eventually everyone gains expert status on loss. If you think you’re immune, you aren’t. This is something director Theodore Melfi banks on with his new film The Starling a dramedy in which parents Lilly and Jack Maynard are grappling with grief from losing their baby daughter Katie to SIDS. The Starling works the extended metaphor of Lilly’s inability to control a bird in her garden that repeatedly attacks her while protecting its nest as a reference reference the grieving parents’ inability to deal with their sadness. The film works and reworks that metaphor and others to such an exhaustive degree that it might as well be the audience members getting dive-bombed à la Tippy Hedren in The Birds.

Reviews

THE STARLING – Review by Martha K Baker

September 14, 2021September 19, 2021 Martha K. Baker Chris O'Dowd, Kevin Kline, Loretta Devine, Melissa McCarthy, rosalind chao, the starling, Theodore Melfi

Oooh, you think, this is going to be a great movie. Just look at that cast! Melissa McCarthy! Chris O’Dowd! Daveed Diggs! Kevin Kline! Then you look at the movie, and you think, “Meh!” The Starling is a film with more promise than delivery but worth analyzing for what went wrong.