Ricki and the Flash
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OK, there are worse way to spend two hours than in the presence of Meryl Streep, and no one ever panned a rock & roll song for inadequate complexity, but is it wrong to ask more from Diablo Cody and Jonathan Demme than a paint-by-numbers family drama? It's not as if Demme doesn't know rock & roll. But unfortunately, the geriatric rock is eroded, and the roll is relentlessly downhill.
Favorite thing: the X Los Angeles T-shirt Mamie Gummer wears in her first scene--and then, because her character is paralytically depressed, for two days' worth of scenes thereafter.
Favorite thing: the X Los Angeles T-shirt Mamie Gummer wears in her first scene--and then, because her character is paralytically depressed, for two days' worth of scenes thereafter.
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