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Here Is the Biggest Pile of Schmaltz You’ll See This Year
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for a movie that uses a bold formal device to incredibly hokey ends.
The most egregious of these instances comes with the Harrises, the only Black family to live in the house, whose storyline consists entirely of parents (Nikki Amuka-Bird and Nicholas Pinnock) giving their teenage son (Cache Vanderpuye) the talk about police violence and their housekeeper contracting COVID. Even the main story, which revolves around the disappointments that stunt the lives of increasingly embittered WWII veteran Al (Paul Bettany) and his oldest child, Richard, rests on clumsy cliches about what deferred dreams look like. The father and son are both salesmen in the grand Arthur Miller tradition, with Richard in particular giving up his art-school aspirations when he and his girlfriend, Margaret, get pregnant right out of high school, going instead into life insurance and growing so financially conservative that the couple never buys their own place.
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