There just isn’t enough story to carry Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” through a feature length running time. While the premise is there, the screenplay (from Katie Silberman, and Carey & Shane Van Dyke) fails to have anything new or interesting to say about the film’s themes, nor does Wilde have the skills as a director to pull it all off.
In an attempt to mix different genres
Gail Gadot became a well-deserving star as Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman in Patty Jenkins’s 2017 adaptation of the DC Comics series. In a sea of dour superhero performances from the DC comics films, Gadot’s Wonder Woman was a shining light. The actress was fresh and fun, fully capturing what makes the character so special. Gadot brought honor and respect to her performance of the much-beloved superhero.
Have you heard of “People like Us”? It's by the same studio--Dreamworks--which had released “The Help.” "People" barely even meets that previous mediocre effort, however, and lacks the two name actresses who made "The Help" the film that it was. That "People" was written by the same scribes (Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman; they also directed it) who were behind the “Transformers” screenplay is no surprise: this is about as
Yet "Unstoppable" isn’t really a movie about a runaway train. It’s a movie about a runaway society. Like domino it portrays a rapidly-changing America struggling with disintegrating institutions and identities. It’s set in fossilizing towns of blue-collar Pennsylvania, focusing on a rusting railway industry that once signified American industrial power. Now it seems like a leftover of the past.