My flight back to Winnipeg was slightly more entertaining than my flight to Europe. I finished 100-Year-Old Man and watched the latest films of two great directors. Here are the five films, from worst to best:SerenaI’ve enjoyed every film Susanne Bier has made, until now. Even with actors like Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Serena is an awful film. I didn’t think Lawrence was capable of a bad performance, but either she’s the victim of some very bad writing and direction or she just messes up this role as the scheming, horrifically unsympathetic wife of a 1920’s rail baron, played by Cooper, who fares no better in his role. Melodrama like this doesn’t work if we don’t care at all about the characters. ** My … Read entire story.
