Review of Marriage Story (2019) by Cityofgeek — 10 Feb 2020
It took me to Oscar weekend to watch. Late, I know. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to put myself through the no-doubt emotional ringer of Baumbach’s story of the dissolution of a marriage. It was a hard film, but a damned fine one.
It had an honest script that only a few times felt like it wasn’t truly drawn from life – mostly when we get speeches. I think I’m the only one who didn’t care for Laura Dern’s Mary/motherhood speech.
Took me out of the naturalness in everything else. Adam Driver and ScarJo where wholly believable. And screw Ray Liotta’s character. That guy ruined everything, as I honestly cared for both of our leads.
While I feel the movie is more in Charlie’s side, the film is mostly balanced as not not be good-guy/bad-guy and important as through everything Charlie and Nicole love each other and that’s important.
I don’t think it’ll crack my top ten when I update but comes darn close.
This review of Marriage Story (2019) was written by Cityofgeek on 10 Feb 2020.
Marriage Story has generally received very positive reviews.
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