Overview
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Oh how I wanted to love this movie. How could it go wrong? Three of the best actresses of their generation and a director whose work I admire, all in one film. And alas, it isn’t good. The result is a drama without drama and characters that not even these great talents could breathe life into. In a way it reminded me of a bad Woody Allen movie (side note: the shots of the empty hallways towards the end was reminiscent of the same scenes in Allen’s Interiors). There would be scene after scene where very little happens to advance the plot or your interest in the characters. It’s almost like dutifully walking through the movie taking notes on what happened and then on to the next scene, as if we were walking past museum exhibits. At no point is any of it compelling or even very interesting.
This film is also another classic case of the rottentomatoes score not being indicative of the quality of the movie. Is it necessarily bad enough to get a negative score? No, but I would by no means take the number of positive reviews as an indication of the movie’s worth.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Let Them All Talk
Movie title: Let Them All Talk
Movie description: A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Date published: 2020-12-11
Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
Actor(s): Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Fitzgerald, Candice Bergen, Mary Catherine Garrison, Elna Baker, Lucas Hedges, Samia Finnerty, Fred Hechinger, David Siegel, David Shepherd, Stephanie Phippen, Dominic Crisonino, Mike Doyle, John Douglas Thompson, Daniel Algrant, Barbara Rickard, Haydn Rickard, Hannah James, Andrea Kaiser, Al Gwilt, Saskia Larsen, Pete Meads
Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Review
Oh how I wanted to love this movie. How could it go wrong? Three of the best actresses of their generation and a director whose work I admire, all in one film. And alas, it isn’t good. The result is a drama without drama and characters that not even these great talents could breathe life into. In a way it reminded me of a bad Woody Allen movie (side note: the shots of the empty hallways towards the end was reminiscent of the same scenes in Allen’s Interiors). There would be scene after scene where very little happens to advance the plot or your interest in the characters. It’s almost like dutifully walking through the movie taking notes on what happened and then on to the next scene, as if we were walking past museum exhibits. At no point is any of it compelling or even very interesting.
This film is also another classic case of the rottentomatoes score not being indicative of the quality of the movie. Is it necessarily bad enough to get a negative score? No, but I would by no means take the number of positive reviews as an indication of the movie’s worth.
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My Review - 5/10
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