End of Year MOVIE JOURNAL

[Chris Knipp]

BIRDS OF PREY (Cathy Yan 2020). Shows that women can make a movie as violent and disgusting as any man can. Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, directed by Cathy Yan, who previously made a Chinese movie called Dead Pigs, take on the theme of what happens to Harley Quin, a DC Comics creation who's the girlfriend of The Joker, when she and The Joker are no longer an item. It feels like a train wreck to me. Cathy Yan likes complicated, over-produced and over-explained ultra-violence. So this is what Margot Robbie is capable of? The most offensive disaster of early 2020. Walked out after under 50 minutes. Only stayed that long becasue of a lengthy, extremely unpleasant and noisy introduction that is hard to distinguish from the noisy, irritating trailers that preceded it. Avoid! Watched at Hilltop, Feb. 6, 2020. Metascore 60%.

This was showing at 6, 7, 8, and 8:40 on its first evening, and they are selling two different T-shirts.