Jane Ferguson

A disjointed but intriguing view on the difficulties surrounding a writer's life and career. What the viewer is led to think is relevant ( Bergen's experience and Streep's dilemma in producing a finished book) becomes less important than Streep's inner life which we don't get enough of due to too many plot points, like Tyler's relationship with the publisher, along with too many other loose ends... weird and not satisfying... but somehow within each scene there's something of value.. so not a total loss.

Brando, the exquisite Japanese actress, and everyone in the cast was fantastic.

I wish Judy W. would stop referring to Trump as “President Trump.” I understand she’s pressed for time but it’s wrong and sloppy inaccurate and annoying.

I was totally engaged in this story. The actors are all, every one, dynamic, compelling, amazing. The narrow focus of how this group of women come to an agreement is beautifully crafted. The only aspect of the film that nagged me was how to accept that the men were there in the story but not there which requires the viewer to create some kind of explanation…. But Foy and Buckley are phenomenal… as are all the actors…

Poorly written, improbable, insulting. Who in his right mind would take his daughter to his workplace at a prison and leave her alone in a room with a serial killer….it’s so bad you wonder how it became produced !

This is the movie the trump crazies need to see

No offense but this is a play, seemed barely adapted, true to the stage, retaining all and more the elements of great theatre. I was mesmerized by the theatricality , the use of language, dreams, symbols, all swirling around… light, sound, music.. to tap into what makes us human, our weaknesses, limits, pathetic beings that we are, blind, ignorant, but forced to keep going. The decaying apartment was the perfect symbol of our interior lives , our dream/nightmares, of what it’s like to go through life … needless to say the ratings are low because it requires energy and work to go the journey with the characters… you miss half of what is said and yet it is a perfectly complete story, Everyman’s story… too bad many of us cannot appreciate it.

For someone who grew up in the 50/60s, this film is immersive in a way that is hard to shake afterward. The use of gritty sound and light, music and commercials, contrasted with the innocence of the period, regardless of the ending and the bloodshed, makes this film very special... collage/ montage is seductive in the cinematography, but up against the humor and truth about actors, directors, and Pacino-like die hards for the business, this film is great. It helps to have lived some of it, naturally, but I’m sure this movie will go down as one of the better commentaries on Hollywood.