Female Film Critics 24/375
If you’d enjoy an Agatha Christie-like whodunit mystery that’s set in someplace like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, visit Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club. Adapted by Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote from erudite Richard Osman’s best-sellers, it’s cleverly cast and deftly directed by Chris Columbus. Hopefully, the caper will become a miniseries.
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When bad things happen to good people, the wind is understandably knocked out of one’s sails – and the loving, concerned people around them. Sorry, Baby is a specific, bittersweet look at how Agnes, a young woman in graduate school, is affected by a sexual assault, and her recovery in the aftermath. Eva Victor, who wrote, directed and starred in this revelatory black comedy-drama, is a fresh new voice that demonstrates how an assured female point of view is sorely needed in modern filmmaking.
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Asif Kapadia’s new docufiction is an intriguing concept hampered by clumsy and patronising execution. 2073 is supposed to be a call to action but instead is a barrage of despair. People who are aware of much of what the documentary is laying out will feel the format is simplistic. People who don’t know much will either not care or have limited reference to Chris Marker’s work. People in the middle with be left with a feeling of disenfranchisement and wonder why the documentary offers no solutions except, “Do something!” – but the doing something is what? Conscious raising groups? Petitions? Protests? Getting arrested? Not seeking medical help because your data is being sold? Working out if your food is lab grown? Or just maybe taking a walk – who knows? Filmmaker Asif Kapadia doesn’t.
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Zoë Kravitz has her finger on the pulse with some extremely pertinent contemporary ideas and is using genre cinema to explore them. The film is competently directed with some excellent set pieces but lacks a final polish. However, better an imperfect film swinging with big ideas and sometimes misses than a safe movie with limited ideas. Blink Twice is chilling, turning all too real daily concerns women face into a fight some men enjoy a little too much. Keep an eye on Zoë Kravitz, one day she’s going to blow you away.
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Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut with Blink Twice, a film which she also wrote. It stars her fiancé, Channing Tatum, as tech billionaire Slater King. The megalomaniac invites a group of men and a bevy of beautiful women to vacation on his Love Island one Midsommar day, but the ladies soon realize THEY are on The Menu and they can’t Get Out.
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The Batman actor Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Blink Twice, will be released globally in theaters on August 23, 2024. The suspense thriller, formerly titled Pussy Island, is being released by Amazon MGM Studios. Along with helming the film, Kravitz penned the script with E.T. Feigenbaum, one of the writers of the 2020 Hulu series High Fidelity, which Kravitz wrote on, starred in and executive produced.
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As special a voice as Houston had, I Wanna Dance With Somebody is your typical homogenized PG 13 bio pic to appeal to the masses. Domineering parents, talent discovered, fast rise to fame, breakneck touring schedule, unraveling relationships, a fall from grace, rehab, a failed comeback and a sentimental conclusion.
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