Despite winning moments from Logan Marshall Green and Stephanie Beatriz and some profound road-trip moments, not much is at stake in
@reversethecursefilm , the shaggy comedy from director
@davidduchovny . It tries to be a father son drama, but it’s not a very compelling one until a remembrance to be about the
@redsox ’ legacy. For a screenplay that tries to weave itself between both, the movie becomes of two minds about how sports fill one with purpose as a replacement for attention to one’s family. We leave the movie uninspired, with ideas that aren’t dug deeper after being brought up. It’s a movie that never hits the strides that it’s meant to; not funny enough, not poignant nor offering anything inspired to say about fandoms.
@reversethecursefilm becomes something maudlin, as there is no extraordinary aspect– and it all comes back to
@davidduchovny .
Marty (
@davidduchovny ) is battling cancer, and with the help of his son Ted (
@elemgy ) finds the most hope to carry on through the idea of the
@redsox one day beating their losing streak that’s been hard to bear witness to in of itself. All the while, his nurse Marianna starts a romance with Ted, who is going through an identity crisis as a struggling writer in the late ’70s (even though
@davidduchovny doesn’t do a great job of setting up period accurate design). There’s a lack of anything grounding this trio to propel anything related to the
@redsox fascination. The movie thinks that
@davidduchovny is interesting enough to carry the weight of his troubled past, but he is just miscast and never compelling as you’d want him to be. As a director, he does enough to get the movie where it needs to go, yet he needs a more interesting anchor than a desperate man facing the fact that all he has is baseball fandom.
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