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Saturday, April 13, 2024

The Miracle Club

 The Miracle Club is a strange movie. It starts out as a pilgrimage story following four women from Ireland, who for various reasons decide to go to the shrine at Lourdes in France. There is considerable animosity between two of the women and the character-played by Laura Linney. As the story unfolds, the reasons become clear.

The other two characters are played by Kathie Bates and Maggie Smith in a role far removed from the role of Lady Crawley on  Downton Abbey.

Remarkably, the plot ends up with a discution of abortion.

The acting is superb as might be expected with the all star cast. But the cast alone cannot save the movie.. I rate it as C.

The Quick Critic

Marlowe

 I recently watched the movie Marlowe. The movie stars Liam Neeson as the private detective, Philip Marlowe. Set in 1939: Neeson’s character is hired to find a missing man. That is the MacGuffin.  There’s even a MacGuffin within.the MacGuffin. Unfortunately, Neeson is too old for the role of the fist fighting,  machine gun toting detective. At least twice in the movie, the two love interests acknowledge that. One of those is played by Jessica Lange, who is superb as the Gloria Swanson like character.

It’s not a bad movie, the sets are perfect and the supporting cast set the right tone. It’s on Netflix. I rate it C+

The Quick Critic