This week on The Movie Gourmet – new reviews of Saiorse Ronan’s bravura performance in The Outrun and the clever doc My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Sweetheart Deal: a triumph of cinéma vérité. In arthouse theaters.
- The Outrun: facing herself without the bottle. In theaters.
- My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock: a trickster and his signatures. In theaters.
- Kneecap: sláinte! Amazon, AppleTV.
- Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!: rascal truth-teller. In theaters.
- In the Summers: they mature, he evolves. In arthouse theaters.
- Will & Harper: old friends adjust. Netflix.
- Made in England: The films of Powell and Pressberger: Scorsese’s film class. In theaters, but increasingly hard to find.
- Wolfs: two charming stars and a chase. AppleTV.
- Megalopolis: pretentious, cartoonish, incoherent. In theaters.
- Tokyo Cowboy: he came, he saw, he changed. In arthouse theaters, but hard to find.
- Didi: learning to get out of his own way. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Mother Couch: obstreperous mom, surreal situation. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube, Fandango.
- Evil Does Not Exist: not so mesmerizing. Amazon, AppleTV, Criterion.
ON TV
On October 27, Turner Classic Movies airs The Bad Seed (1956). Very bad things are happening – the chill comes from the revelation that the murderous fiend is a child with blonde pigtails. It’s gotta be tough to be cute and creepy at the same time, but child star Patty McCormack pulled it off. McCormack went on to161 screen credits, including iconic TV shows from Route 66 and Death Valley Days to Murder, She Wrote and The Sopranos. Patty is the queen of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, having worked with everyone from Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury to Ron Howard, Michael Douglas, Philip Seymour Hoffman and of course, Kevin Bacon himself.