Better writing would have helped ‘M3GAN’; ‘Living,’ ‘Man Called Otto’ are terrific, poignant dramas
While it’s been a little quiet on the movie scene of late in the Bay Area, a flurry of new arrivals will appeal to a variety of tastes — from a toy that slays to a Tom Hanks tearjerker. Here’s our roundup.The premise holds such ghoulish promise — an A.I. toy that looks like a creepy doll/child flips out. But this rather perfunctory Jason Blum and James Wan production doesn’t go far enough with the humor or the scares.
Wearing his grief like a boulder on his shoulders, he investigates a string of gory slayings at a secretive West Point where, it just so happens, a quirky cadet named Edgar Allan Poe emerges as one of a number of suspects. Strategically paced and gorgeously filmed, “The Pale Blue Eye” is adapted from Louis Bayard’s novel of the same name, and subtly says something meaty about the military mindset, family lineage and the hazards of prolonged grief.
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