Director: Olivia WildeScreenplay: Rashida Jones and Will McCormackStarring: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, Edward NortonYear: 2026Country: United StatesGenre: Comedy-drama / chamber comedyRunning time: 107 minutesBased on: Cesc Gay’s Sentimental (2020), released internationally as The People UpstairsRating: ★★★★☆ What It Is Joe and Angela are a long-married San Francisco couple whose relationship has calcified intoContinue reading “Who Are You at the Dinner Table? The Invite — Review”
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The Beginning of the End of the Story: Departure(s) — Review
Author: Julian BarnesTitle: Departure(s)Year: 2026Genre: Literary fictionForm: A late novel / elegiac fictionRating: ★★★★★ What It Is Departure(s) is Julian Barnes’s declared final book: a brief, formally elusive work that moves between fiction, memoir, literary essay and autobiography while refusing to settle comfortably into any one of them. Barnes’s own website describes it as fictionContinue reading “The Beginning of the End of the Story: Departure(s) — Review”
Outline by Rachel Cusk — Review
Author: Rachel CuskTitle: OutlineFirst published: 2014Genre: Literary fictionLength: approximately 250 pages (256 pages in the Picador paperback edition)Series: Outline Trilogy, Book OneRating: ★★☆☆☆ What It Is Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel constructed largely through ten conversations. Its narrator, Faye, is a writer who travels to Athens to teach a summer creative-writing course. During herContinue reading “Outline by Rachel Cusk — Review”
