Review of Carol (2015) by Backhandslice — 06 Jan 2016

I don't get critics' universal adulation for this film. Sure, it's a very pretty movie - the cinematography, makeup, etc. - but it is dreadfully boring. The film lives and dies by whether or not you find two hours of furtive glances between illicit lovers stimulating or not - I did not.

I felt like I was watching two mannequins play at being in love. Thank goodness for Sarah Paulson's and Kyle Chandler's scenes, whose performances were based on what actual human beings act and sound like, otherwise I might have fallen asleep.