Putting it mildly, I did not care for this year’s breakout Sundance hit, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
My review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is now up at Rogerebert.com.
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Putting it mildly, I did not care for this year’s breakout Sundance hit, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
My review of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Wow, that sounds awful.
Also, why does poor Olivia (Bates Motel) Cooke have to play yet another dying girl?
I know!! She’s quite good, actually, even though all she does is listen to him talk, and get progressively sicker.
That one scene I mentioned – the long-take scene – she drives that scene, it’s really HER scene – and she does a very good job, and his reactions to her feel spontaneous, because she makes him be spontaneous. No editing can create that – it has to exist – because it’s only one take.
It’s the only scene where I got interested in what was happening onscreen.
It’s terrible.
I’m not often baffled by reviews with opinions that differ from mine – but the raves that came out of Sundance were so insistent – that when I finally saw the film I was just … baffled at those raves.
I mean, I think this is a really shitty movie.
This entire review is hilarious.
hahahahaha It really bothered me.
‘At one point he says, “Please appreciate how honest I just was.” A valid answer to that statement would be, “No. I’m dying. I don’t know you. Go away.”‘
This is my favorite line. I love how honest you always are. There’s no trace of fawning in any review you write, it’s all 100% unvarnished opinion.
Thank you!
I just wanted her to tell this unknown kid to skedaddle. You are under no obligation to spend your last months on earth coaching him on how to be a better person. Eff THAT.