![]() ![]() ![]() Russell Brand Cites Kurt Vonnegut to Address Katy Perry Breakupīy trying to cover so many aspects of Vonnegut’s life, Argott and Weide leave viewers wondering about their ideal audience. Some interviewees’ observations about Vonnegut will seem obvious to anyone who’s read Vonnegut’s writing, especially his daughter Edith Vonnegut’s theory that her father’s oft-quoted mantra of “So it goes” (from “Slaughterhouse Five”, his commercial and critical breakthrough) reflects his ambivalence toward humanity and its marginal place in the universe. Vonnegut also experienced great trauma as a prisoner-of-war in Dresden during WWII those experiences also inspired the existential humor that came to define his best-known stories. Vonnegut wasn’t much of a family man, as his middle-aged children explain through choppy on-camera interviews, but he enjoyed and sought affection from his first wife Jane and his elder sister Alice. The rest of Argott and Weide’s documentary superficially considers Vonnegut’s work as an extension of his elusive personality. Brief passages from Vonnegut’s novels, narrated by Vonnegut himself, illustrate the light touch and irreverent humor that made a teenage Weide interested in Vonnegut: “He thinks what I think about the world.’” Weide would later think of Vonnegut as “the old man”, but at this point in Weide’s narrative, Vonnegut’s defined by his vast, overwhelming influence. Rotten Tomatoes is owned by NBCUniversal.Kurt Vonnegut Describes What ‘Scares the S–‘ Out of Him in Teaser for IFC Films’ Doc ‘Unstuck in Time’ (Video) Universal is releasing "No Time To Die" internationally while MGM handles the domestic release. Disclosure: Comcast owns NBCUniversal and CNBC. ![]() "You feel all the wear and tear on Craig's body and face, all the strain on Bond of having to save the world one last time (again) yet also all the tantalizing freedom of someone approaching the end of a long run," he said. "Suffice to say, then, that 'No Time To Die' is Daniel Craig's best incarnation of an iconic role, an iteration that sees Bond travel to emotional spaces the character has never been to before, at least not since 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' or in certain passages of Ian Fleming's books," Solomons wrote. Since "Casino Royale," the character of Bond has been given more depth than any other portrayal of the iconic character. Many critics have agreed that Craig's performance is one of the most emotional of any previous James Bond actor. ![]() "And, to cap it all, Craig may well have delivered the most complex and layered Bond performance of them all." "'No Time to Die' will be remembered for its emotional impact above all," wrote Jason Solomons in his review of the film for The Wrap. Lashana Lynch, a new addition to the film as Bond's 007 replacement, "feels like a self-aware nod to controversy around the casting of Bond, which is cool enough, but then she's not given much of a character to make her interesting on her own," he said.Īnd Ana de Armas, who appears as a fellow spy during a mission to Cuba, "pops up to give the film a completely different and welcome new energy in an action sequence set in Cuba, only to leave the movie ten minutes later." Tallerico was particularly critical of how the film used its supporting cast, noting that returning actors like Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw are given little to do except "push the plot forward to its inevitable ending." "Even as it's closing character arcs that started years ago, it feels like a film with too little at stake, a movie produced by a machine that was fed the previous 24 flicks and programmed to spit out a greatest hits package," he wrote in his review of the film. For Brian Tallerico of, "No Time to Die" director Fukunaga "plays it too safe and too familiar." ![]()
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