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‘The Glass Castle’ Review: Memoir Becomes Melodrama, With a Wasted Brie Larson Performance
‘The Glass Castle’ Review: Memoir Becomes Melodrama, With a Wasted Brie Larson Performance
‘The Glass Castle’ Review: Memoir Becomes Melodrama, With a Wasted Brie Larson Performance
Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 was one of the best movies of 2013, and remains one of the most surprising indie dramas of the past several years. It’s the film that finally put Brie Larson on the film industry’s radar, charting a path towards an eventual Oscar win. One of the greatest strengths of that film is how delicately it unpacks the day-to-day trauma and struggle of neglected teens living at a group home. With that in mind, Cretton’s latest film The Glass Castle sounded especially promising – an adaptation about a dysfunctional family told through the eyes of a young girl. Unfortunately The Glass Castle is nothing like Short Term 12, trading in nuance for glib storytelling while giving Larson little to do.
Brie Larson Helps Out Her Estranged Parents in the New ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson Helps Out Her Estranged Parents in the New ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson Helps Out Her Estranged Parents in the New ‘The Glass Castle’ Trailer
Brie Larson’s The Glass Castle definitely looks like one of those awards-bait family drama movies that actors join up with when they really, really want to win an Oscar. But Larson has already won an Oscar, and keep in mind that this is from Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Short Term 12, the movie that effectively launched Larson’s leap to stardom.
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In the soon to be released “Diana,” two time Oscar-nominee Naomi Watts plays Princess Diana, a role she describes as “the hardest thing I’ve ever done.”