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Florence movie theater5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Movies used to be a communal experience and they used to provide us with a collective reservoir of images and scraps of dialogue that functioned as a kind of cultural glue. We still kinda review movies that open theatrically, but that's an aesthetic decision, rooted in the belief that there's still something important about the ritual of going out to the movies and watching light dance on a wall amid similarly inclined congregants. Now that streaming services (and a pandemic) have disrupted the film industry, there are probably 1,000 new films available to our audience arguably worth critical attention. In 2004, there might have been 100 movies that opened theatrically in Arkansas - we would have reviewed every one of those that the studios weren't actively trying to prevent critics from seeing. Or at least that's what we used to try to do. We try to review every movie that opens theatrically in Arkansas on or before its opening. OK, I guess it doesn't hurt too bad to miss it.Ī few years ago, missing "A Good Person" like this would have really bothered me. the film's single valuable lesson - the one about not looking at your phone while driving - is all but forgotten." "The title asks us to consider what happens when a good person does a bad thing this film seems to imply that if you're a good person, you can pull a gun on someone at a party in front of many witnesses and you won't get into trouble as your exhaustively established sensitivity and suffering means there is apparently no question of the cops showing up the next morning. I do hate his T-Mobile commercials though.Īnyway, a critic I respect, Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian, did see it. OK, maybe we could guess from that what kind of experience this might be, but I'm still at the stage where I'll see anything Florence Pugh stars in, and though it's not fashionable to say anymore, I didn't hate Braff's "Garden State" (which came out in 2004 - I could have sworn it came out in the mid-'90s). As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can flourish in unlikely places." So we don't have a review of "A Good Person" for the newspaper today, which isn't a huge loss considering the few reviews I've seen have pretty much beat up on the movie and Braff.Īccording to the studio synopsis, in the film "Daniel (Morgan Freeman) is brought together with Allison (Florence Pugh), the once thriving young woman with a bright future who was involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took his daughter's life. Unfortunately, the screening link never arrived, which doesn't mean the publicist/studio didn't send it, only that email and digital links are imperfect delivery devices. I was kind of looking forward to seeing Zach Braff's "A Good Person." ![]()
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