Around the turn of the 21st century, there were a whole bunch of movies that take a series of disparate episodes and tie them together on the streets of Los Angeles. “Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her” (2001) is not the best one of those movies. On paper, having Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart and Holly Hunter tell stories about the love lives of complex women is a good idea, but paper is where it should have stayed, because the dialogue is so affected, the performers sound like they’re reading, not acting.
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(I’m only ranking my age-peers, not Britney Spears or Helen Mirren. I’ll add to these lists as time goes on – suggestions are welcome.)
AGED WELL
Neve Campbell
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Lopez
Carrie-Anne Moss
Perrey Reeves
Sarah Silverman
Uma Thurman
NOT AGED WELL
Courteney Cox
Johnny Depp
Me
Owen Wilson
There are some halfway-decent actors doing a good job with interesting characters in “Force of Nature” (2020). Emile Hirsch is a cop with PTSD, Mel Gibson is a salty, retired NYPD cop who knows Hirsch’s backstory, and Kate Bosworth is Gibson’s slightly-less-salty doctor daughter. Unfortunately, the plot is moronically half-baked (crime gang going after Nazi plunder during a Puerto Rican hurricane, with narration from some idiot weatherman or DJ or something). Ultimately, it becomes a trying-to-escape-the-bad-guys story. I wish someone would have helped Bosworth, Gibson and Hirsch’s characters escape to a different movie so I could have watched that instead.
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