Shirley

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D P @RT45936356 Jan 27 This is the kind of navel-gazing Hollywood always finds the budget to produce. They should create a new rating-- 'B' for bored to tears. See more prawnda s @RT72497680 Jan 7 the amount of acting classes and personal training elisabeth moss and her parents must be paying for just to consistently put out such a mediocre performance is staggering, and i genuinely believe it's because she has a lack of potential. any person with a high school diploma given the same resources as her would have a better chance of becoming a competent actor or actress than she does. sometimes you just need to realize when you are a dud and perhaps try a different industry. oh, she's also a scientologist. See more Michael W @Michael1946 Nov 27 An hour into this movie and I still have 45 minutes to go? Will I be able to finish it? I don't know if I can, because I can't remember when I've seen a movie this bad. The acting is bad, the screenplay is bad and the lighting is horrible. If you've seen it and praise it, more power to you. See more Blu B @RT43513976 02/06/2025 I don't know man. I think it's an interesting idea and there are some interesting things presented but it just doesn't go anywhere for like 85% of the time. And the climax is just....a letdown I guess I don't know. Editing and pacing aren't good here. The cuts are so abrupt half the time and it feels like it never really links the stories of the four people/two couples sharing the house that well into something cohesive. It feels like stuff just happens. The writing the book, the tension between the husband and the grad student, the baby, the affair, the authors weird and disturbing behavior, a freakin lesbian romance that comes out of nowhere, it all just feels like it doesn't add up to much of anything really. Nothing says romance like someone trolling you about eating fake poison mushrooms I guess. Everything else is just alright. The acting is very campy and wooden save for Sthulbarg who is good but isn't in this eough. He's the only one with any emotion or charm or gets a reaction out of any of the other actors. Everyone else is a stick in the mud, not really likeable, or just forgettable. I wish the lighting in this was less dull because the direction isn't half bad. It would also help if these weird scenes actually had something to say. I feel like the end results would've happened even if these couples never moved in together honestly. Besides that I never really had a reason to care about anyone and the interest I did have didn't really make the slow burn pay off into anything worthwhile. Skip This. Maybe if there was more of Michael Sthulberg I'd say give it watch if your a fan but there just isn't enough of him either. See more Simon T @MovieTart 01/25/2025 This claustrophobic and disturbing biography of horror writer Shirley Jackson is quite testing, mainly because it tends to confine its characters to the dimly lit interiors of its large house and provides no glib psychological explanations for its principal characters' actions. Elisabeth Moss - playing yet another oddball - is Jackson; her creepily controlling husband is superlatively acted by Michael Stuhlbarg. The young newly-weds who have been invited to stay are Odessa Young and Logan Lerman. It's worth hanging in during the slightly confusing opening. See more Lucas G @Floral_emissions 10/19/2024 Very boring, slow, confusing and Elizabeth Moss is perhaps more unlikesble than ever before (and thats a big thing to say for her) For some reason this was presented as a horror. I found hard to focus or care and didn’t finish it. See more Read all reviews

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