9/11/2023 0 Comments Wild thyme players![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shanley, whose script for “Moonstruck” suggests that he once had a slightly tighter handle on this sort of thing, brings his play “Outside Mullingar” to the screen like he’s trying to fill every close-up with enough whimsical enchantment to reach the back row of a Broadway theater. The lethal intensity of this effect cannot be overstated the only logical explanation for what happened here is that someone planted a bomb in Shanley’s editing bay and timed it to explode if any cut of “Wild Mountain Thyme” dipped below 50 kilohertz of cartoon Irish charm per minute. Needless to say, nobody got hurt.Īnd yet, for a movie that often feels like a feature-length infomercial for Aer Lingus and builds to what might just be the single most absurd reveal in the history of narrative fiction (I couldn’t explain it if I tried, and even Shanley himself appears to be unsure as to whether or not its worth taking seriously), “Wild Mountain Thyme” is awful hard to hate. ‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot Stars in Netflix’s Uncomfortably Algorithmic Answer to the Evils of A.I. ![]()
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