Review of Shirley

Shirley (2020)
8/10
Just to correct the balance
11 July 2020
A whole bunch of reviewers and users have marked down this movie because it's not the one that they wanted Decker to make.

It is particularly silly to pout, because the Shirley of this movie doesn't have her four real-life kids in tow.

But that would be a totally different movie, and you wouldn't get the extremal love-hate of the Shirley-Rose interactions, which riff on Moss's similar interactions in AR Perry's Queen of Earth.

News flash, movies change, deal with it. We have sound and colour these days. Jump cuts. If you look at this one its own terms, Decker is the way she always is, consistently different and original.

I think she can go a little better yet. I maybe prefer Madeline's Madeline, even though it had less money thrown at it, and no Scorcese for EP.
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