I've been spending some time with a lady who is a big fan of movies on the big screen. One of the few things we have in common, call it a "situationship", more than a relationship. We've seen several movies in theaters the past few months:
A Real Pain - Mentioned above. Agree on the acting. Attendance was pitched to me a watching a comedy. There are a few funny scenes, but I found it more a human relationship/family dynamics drama set against the history of the Holocaust. Small cast with location shots, well-crafted movie. Glad I saw it, once was enough.
A Complete Unknown - Also mentioned above. Interesting look at the folk scene and other changes in music in that era. I'm a Bob Dylan fan, and like everything Dylan, one has to wonder how much of what was depicted actually happened that way. Good thing they cut off they story in 1965. Going just another few years would have made it hard to tell a coherent story and key relationships from those early years wouldn't have had as much detail as they did. Even then it could have ended 15 minutes or so earlier and been more impactful IMO. I'll watch it again when I can get it with captions as Chalamet mastered the Dylan mumble and some dialogue was hard to hear.
Watched Babygirl with Nicole Kidman Sunday. Psycho-sexual drama about a middle-aged (meaning younger than me

) CEO who latches on to one of her company's young interns to indulge what we later learn to be long-repressed bedroom fantasies. All while married to Antonio Banderas and keeping up with two teen girls.
Nothing erotic about the bedroom scenes as they occur against this weird psychological tension. Implausible sequence of events to set up the affair, and too few hints that would help explain her behavior.
If you're curious about how thin Kidman is and the quality of her cosmetic surgeries (or is it her body double?), it might be worth the $7 that I paid. I wasn't, so I'd call it a waste of time and money. This was a choice of my companion, and she didn't care for it. Her primary complaint is that it's too female-centric. I need to have her explain that