Canelé is a playful comedy about pregnancy cravings, competition, and the small battles we fight before life shows us the bigger picture. When a devoted but exhausted father-to-be sets out to secure a single pastry for his very pregnant wife, he's pulled into an absurd, high-stakes race against his equally stubborn neighbor. What begins as a simple errand spirals into sabotage, rivalry, and sheer chaos-until a sudden twist reminds everyone what truly matters.
The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.
'The Lovebirds' is one of those movies that has a very direct appeal when it comes to its comedy. There isn’t a singular style, so much as tidbits of various ones here and there.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world.
The way Jeannette has to deal with child neglect makes her insecure about her parents and how she was brought up and raised in the United States. This continues into adulthood, where Jeannette becomes a successful journalist and is frequently asked about her parents by others.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
The most impressive aspect of this film is the honest and natural performances given by the on-screen duo.
