Doug and Randall are a pair of thieves that are as thick as… well… thieves. And despite some slight hiccups in previous plans, they are back at it again robbing a house. However, once they start to figure out who owns said house, they start wishing they’d settled for minimum wage.
“To be universal, you have to get specific”: while the film does not attempt to provoke discussions about queerness or race, those watching closely may find something resonant in Sorrentino’s love letter to the Naples of his youth.
SPOILERS AHEAD. Premature is a story about the pain of love and realities. Transitioning from youth to our perspective of adulthood, how do we grapple with loss?
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
"65" (2023) is the latest Dino flick to try and answer "what else can we do with dinosaurs?"
