{"id":148929,"date":"2019-07-26T12:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=148929"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:58:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T14:58:21","slug":"review-the-mountain-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=148929","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Mountain<\/i> (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRick Alverson is not an ingratiating film-maker and seems to not care whether or not you follow him. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. I respect that attitude, even if sometimes I find his work exasperating. His latest, The Mountain<\/i>, is, by far, his most accessible – but it’s still quite difficult and extremely depressing. These are not criticisms. I’m alienated by the demand for happy endings and progressive self-empowerment narratives. Jeff Goldblum is truly great here. I do recommend it. I reviewed The Mountain<\/i> for Ebert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Alverson is not an ingratiating film-maker and seems to not care whether or not you follow him. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. I respect that attitude, even if sometimes I find his work exasperating. His … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2546,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148931,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148929\/revisions\/148931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}