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Une fille facile (2019)
Bland and lazy
The film starts off well then veers into tiresome and often repeated cliché scenes typical of 1970s French coming-of-age films. What used to be original and controversial back then feels terribly dated and derivative now. Good performance from the actors, but weak exploration of the characters.
Girl from Nowhere (2016)
As useless a film as they come
It's rare that I encounter an utterly useless film with no redeeming qualities to justify spending valuable time on it. Bad acting, bad script, bad ending, bad everything. Amateurish filmaking at its worst. I don't even know why it's on Amazon Prime.
Mr. Turner (2014)
Utterly baffled and mystified
I am utterly baffled and mystified as to why such a dreadful movie with equally dreadful characters would garner a 95/100 rating on Metacritic. Yes the production values are excellent with meticulously recreated 19th century imagery but the story line, the subject matter, and the dialogue would make you wish someone would just walk up to you and shoot you just to put an end to your misery. And folks, it's two and a half hours of this nonsense. You get to watch the main character (Mr. Turner, the painter) express himself in a series of pig-like grunts and cockney mumbles, various close-ups of his triple-chinned, wart-covered face, and watch him take from behind his equally hideous maid, then meander from one disconnected scene to another with no attempt to explain either his genius or talent.
More mystifying still, according to an article I just read, its producers are overly optimistic that this film is going to be a runaway success that will appeal to a wide audience, especially the young viewers. What??? Can I have a puff of what they were smoking when they said that?