The Kids Are All Right
Mad
A beautiful film that gets almost everything right, which makes it all the more disappointing that it relies on such a cliché for the big revelation of infidelity.
All is forgiven, though--by us, if not by spouse and children--when MFW Julianne Moore delivers the climactic apology. Is there anyone in the business a smart screenwriter would rather have sell an emotional speech?
The fates seemed to be conspiring against my seeing this this weekend, by the way: went to see the 5:10 screening at the Criterion yesterday after work, only to discover on arriving that, contrary to what the "information" online, the 5:10 screening had started at 4:50. Then today--on rental-car weekend--I headed to Madison in plenty of time for the 2:10, only to be waylaid on I-95 by an accident-born traffic snarl. If there's a scene before the opening titles, I still haven't seen it.
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