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Snap Crackle Boom Sorkin Filmmaking. He's becoming stronger as a director. The editing is some of the swiftest. Being the Ricardos charmed me off my feet. The Sorkin dialogue matches with this highly specific story about the recognizable American entities. Sorkin's background is keenly fit for telling a behind-the-scenes production of a TV show. The movie thrives when it flexes its muscle in this venue. Although the impetus of the film - Lucy being a communist - does feel forgotten at times, it references something relevant today.

Kidman and Bardem are sensations. The way Kidman comes alive during the B&W recreations is something for which I was unprepared. She did it, she pulled it off. She pulls off an uncanny Lucy, and exercise a deep introspection and deep, ballsy business savvy and laborious creativity. I cannot imagine anyone other than Nicole playing Lucille. Bardem is a breath a breath of fresh air and overcomes his fair share of obstacles. I was not prepared for how strong of an intertwined character and story arc this film possessed for Lucille, nor the payoff for the couple's fate.

Destined from pre-production to fail the purity test by cool Film Twitter, Being the Ricardo's is the filmmaking establishment at its best.

Okay, no. Simply Irresistible is not the worst SMG movie. It's this.

The Grudge 2 encapsulates everything people tried to inaccurately say the 2004 film was.

The new color pallet and cinematography cheapen the sequel so much. On top of that, the plot and dialogue are horribly written and matched with a grossly melodramatic tone. It's such a lazy effort all around.

This sucks because having three parallel storylines could have been terrific way to tell the next chapter in the franchise. Even Karen's two scenes are half-assed, and the conclusion to her story early on could have been something terrific as well.

It's a giant a step down from the remake to this sequel.