Steph:
This is quite possibly the worst film I’ve seen in 2022, with all the famous actors acting all boring, and I somehow didn’t learn anything significant about any of the characters, even after the 7-hour runtime, which made it impossible for me to care about the plot, not that there even was one. ⏰
Josh:
Having just listened to Rachel Maddow’s podcast, Ultra, I can tell you there are some great, unheard stories about Americans, true believers and venal opportunists, who were ready to sell our country out to the Nazis, and the brave and resourceful people who stopped them, but I can’t fathom why Russell chose to tell such a fascinating and timely story in this lamely farcical and heavily mannered way, so that the whole thing feels like it was shot low-and wide-angle, and it all just gets so tedious, despite the impressive talent on hand, and also, you can’t do T-Sway (she’s fine) like that and then flashback over a decade like we’re just going to forget about that for a while, and so in protest, I dozed off. ⏰⏰
The Bare Minimum 