In a performance that easily ranks among her best, Susan Sarandon portrays Marnie, a widowed mother, and the titular busybody of Lorene Scafaria’s “The Meddler.” Roughly a year after her husband’s death, Marnie relocates from New Jersey to Los Angeles in order to be closer to her grown daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne). Depressed after a […]
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Film Review: “Whiplash”
Typically in films of the “inspirational teacher” genre, the celebrated, unconventional instructors that inspire their pupils to reach greatness do so by kindly reaching out to their young students, instilling in them a lifelong love of learning through their sheer passion for teaching. In “Whiplash,” Terence Fletcher, the tyrannical music teacher played with gleeful relish […]
