Steven Soderbergh and Channing Tatum head to London for perhaps one dance too many and the year's biggest Oscar controversy surrounds a run-of-the-mill indie.
Feb 9, 2023·edited Feb 9, 2023Liked by Scott Tobias
It's hard not to like To Leslie -- Riseborough's performance really is one for the ages. I actually found Maron to be the weakest link in the film; I had a hard time tuning into him in contrast to Riseborough (and Teague, too -- I really hope he'll keep finding more stuff to do because I loved him in Mrs. Fletcher and loved him here). To date, Maron's best for me is in Sword of Trust, and a lot of that is attributable to the great (and sadly late) Lynn Shelton.
Me always forget that director of Shizopolis and Bubble has also made series of movies that are just extended excuses for Charming Potato to take his shirt off. Me not surprised this is as inessential as it seems, me just surprised they convinced Soderbergh to direct it.
"I confess to not having heard of it at all until a series of coordinated celebrity tweets started rolling out about it, which I might roughly paraphrase as: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life."
Honestly, Soderbergh’s been phoning it in since he came back from that weird “retirement,” and I’m stunned the critical community has continued to carry so much water for him, at least until now. Everything he does is a half-hearted exercise. He’s directing like a guy who doesn’t want anything to get in the way of his six o’clock cocktail.
It's hard not to like To Leslie -- Riseborough's performance really is one for the ages. I actually found Maron to be the weakest link in the film; I had a hard time tuning into him in contrast to Riseborough (and Teague, too -- I really hope he'll keep finding more stuff to do because I loved him in Mrs. Fletcher and loved him here). To date, Maron's best for me is in Sword of Trust, and a lot of that is attributable to the great (and sadly late) Lynn Shelton.
Addendum: Maron was pretty great in GLOW, too!
Me always forget that director of Shizopolis and Bubble has also made series of movies that are just extended excuses for Charming Potato to take his shirt off. Me not surprised this is as inessential as it seems, me just surprised they convinced Soderbergh to direct it.
"I confess to not having heard of it at all until a series of coordinated celebrity tweets started rolling out about it, which I might roughly paraphrase as: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life."
Love the Manchurian Candidate reference. #ManCan
Honestly, Soderbergh’s been phoning it in since he came back from that weird “retirement,” and I’m stunned the critical community has continued to carry so much water for him, at least until now. Everything he does is a half-hearted exercise. He’s directing like a guy who doesn’t want anything to get in the way of his six o’clock cocktail.