07 August 2015

Blinded by the lite

Ricki and the Flash

Crit
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.

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