The street-smart strivers of 2019’s movies, from J. Lo to Brad Pitt.
, though it was overlong and on a certain level doomed from the start by setting up shop so determinedly in the shadow of Stanley Kubrick. But the sequence in which Rose the Hat, the sultry-crunchy-terrifying psychic vampire played by Rebecca Ferguson, astral projects in search of child prey was just aces. She doesn’t fly: She hovers there in the night sky and moves the world around her with her will and with the unsettling logic of a dream.
Anyway, to get back to acting—my favorite performance of the year, and the one I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since first seeing it, was Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner in the Safdie brothers’. You know, every few years a famous comedian will take on a serious role, and if they’re good, then we as critics will usually praise them for showing us a whole other side of their capabilities. But I wouldn’t put what Sandler does in.
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