We were doing so well, me and 2023! But it was bound to happen that I'd have a movie this Awards Season that would rub me the wrong way, and... well, it's not a huge surprise that it turned out to be Bradley Cooper's Maestro. I also loathed his last movie (A Star is Born for those of you who blocked that one out) and I went into Maestro annoyed that Jake Gyllenhaal wasn't the one playing Leonard Bernstein. That said I have eaten crow plenty of times, and am more than willing to admit if something works even if I went into it with low expectations -- no crow will be eaten today. Maestro, despite Carey Mulligan doing typically good work and the costumes and production design and such all being beautifully rendered, is not a good movie. Click here to read my review of the film out of NYFF, where it just played this past weekend. I will say that I didn't choose the headline, I maybe wouldn't have gone that hard right out of the gate, but seeing as how it is using my own words from inside the review I suppose I can't argue. And dearest Carey Mulligan, please don't hold it against me -- I left you out of my vitriol and when I write up Saltburn you'll be getting so much love, I promise!
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