Yay
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Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Comes close to being among my favorite of the director's, but she botches the ending. The roiling emotions dug up are explored and debated so potently throughout that the pat resolution comes off a cheat -- too neat and tidy. Before that though, quite a delight; the film may lack Sofia Coppola's usual woozy sensuality, but her gentle touch to somewhat screwball material consistently charms. Bill Murray is great here, funneling his easy charisma into something both alluring and sinister, and Rashida Jones holds her own against him, depicting the life-long feeling of self-doubt that partly stems from being around her father. The scenes of them bantering and hanging out together, apart from being highly enjoyable, also function as sly double studies extrapolated through one father-daughter relationship: one of marital insecurity, and another being character study of a man with casually abused, outsized privilege, whom Coppola complicates by having us see him through Jones' eyes, with his moments of smooth charm, rampant casual misogyny, and fatherly love always mingled together. 7.5/10
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
My ranking of her work would be...
1. Lost in Translation
2. Marie Antoinette
3. The Virgin Suicides
4. On the Rocks
5. Somewhere
6. The Beguiled
7. The Bling Ring
8. A Very Murray Christmas
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
I really, really liked this.
It's a very simple movie, but it simply works the whole 90 minutes. It's consistently funny, all three characters are so enjoyable to watch. It's never eyeroll endearing. Tough to pull off.