Posts tagged sandra hüller
REVIEW: ‘Digger’ drills for comedy gold, with wildly mixed results

Does Digger strike black gold, or is it more of a Deepwater Horizon (the ecological disaster, not the film)? For the first two thirds, I thought I knew what I was getting; it fits the bill of a pretentious, swing-for-the-fences film that will irritate or confuse most of its audience, and charm the few that are left. But there’s a key speech from a character played by Jesse Plemons, near the end, that helped win me over a bit and counterbalance some of the earlier frustration.

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REVIEW: ‘Project Hail Mary’ will make you want to cuddle a rock alien

“Am I smart?!?” is one of the first things Ryan Gosling’s character in Project Hail Mary yells out when he wakes up from an induced coma. It’s the opening sequence of the movie, and Ryland Grace (Gosling) finds himself, unshaven and amnesiac, aboard a spaceship heading for the star system of Tau Ceti. He’s not quite sure why he’s there but he knows he’s scared, alone, and on a mission of some kind. 

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