Review of Maggie's Plan (2016) by Bobmeier — 17 Jun 2016
I LOVED Maggie's Plan. What I loved most about this wonderful film was the dialog, which comes at you at a relentless and nonstop and WONDERFUL way. Gerwig is so believable and another's reviewers comparison to Woody Allen-era Diane Keaton are spot on.
Not that she's a Keaton clone, she's comes across so sincere and really wanting to do the right thing, but things just don't work out. The few pieces of music fit in so perfectly (altho I"ve always hated Bruce Springsteen, I actually found my self liking Dancing in the Dark in the one scene with the bar band version.
) There are obscure reggae cuts that feel so right and so great in the movie. The scenes involving her children are heartbreakingly adorable. And the kids are so adorable....whatever Maggie's Plan was, the results are these kids who have the most wonderful(seemed to be using that word alot) rapport with Gerwig.
. Juliane Moore is great as the ice queen who turns out to be not so icy after all. This was my favorite movie so far this year. OK I'm not the greatest at telling you why, but PLEASE see this movie. This movie deserves a bigger audience(I saw it in an audience of three people) and I wish this would be come a huge suprise hit.
It won't, and that will be alot of people's bad luck, because Maggie's Plan is (sorry) WONDERFUL. There's just no other word that does it.
This review of Maggie's Plan (2016) was written by Bobmeier on 17 Jun 2016.
Maggie's Plan has generally received positive reviews.
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