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All the Light We Cannot See (2023)
Who Will Save Nell From Snidely Whiplash?
And who will die trying to?
A very believable premise -- a Christoph Waltz imitator chases our brave French heroine around France during World War 2 because he believes a diamond she's rumored to have will cure him of a fatal disease.
She's shepherded around by her dad, a loving fellow with a horrible accent, who gets her to his uncle, a revered but troubled Frenchman with a strong English accent. Meanwhile a young, brilliant German orphan grows up and gets purloined by dastardly Nazis for his talent with radios.
Each cliché ridden segment (fortunately only three before the finale) ends with a cliffhanger reminiscent of the silent films satirized in Dudley Do-Right cartoons and done better by the folk from Dallas.
The leads are ok, as is Hugh Lawrie, the Christoph Waltz imitator is as good as you might want a Christoph Waltz imitator to be, and the supporting cast is fine. The longer this adaptation lingers, however, the more damage to Mark Ruffalo's career it will do.
Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
A Worthy Documentary
As someone who followed Cohn's career in real time it's clear that the film tells real truths about a complicated and fascinating man with no moral boundaries or bottom. And the lesson of Cohn's life, never admit anything, never apologize, and always hit back harder than you were hit, is abundantly demonstrated. Even his own relatives understood the truth.
You will not lose interest in this film.