It’s been a busy week, but things seem to have slowed down today in anticipation of July 4th weekend.
We already had a “Ticket to Paradise” reaction sent over on May 16th. With fhe trailer having been released earlier this week, yet another reaction has popped up.
It looks fairly pedestrian, an old-school rom-com for the nostalgists are out there. The draw of this movie is not the director, it’s George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Simple as that. They’ve always had great chemistry together, not to mention that they are close friends in real-life.
Weirdly enough, this is another reaction that singles out Luca Bravo as a scene stealer — he’s not even featured in the trailer.
The film test-screened on 5/12 in Los Angeles:
I attended a test screening of this, it is a crowd pleaser! I bet it makes a good amount of money. I doubt it becomes an awards player though so I’m surprised they’re going with a premiere at Venice of all places. But I guess Venice has been getting a bit more mainstream over recent years
My guess is probably 80’s on RT, 60s-70s on metacritic. It’s a very charming and entertaining movie, but doesn’t really do anything particularly exciting. I’m sure critics will largely react to it warmly but I don’t see it getting the response of Julia’s rom-coms from the 90’s.
Get ready for some reviews shouting out Lucas Bravo though. If it were possible to steal a movie from Roberts and Clooney (it isn’t) he just about does. I just recognized him as the hot french guy from Emily in Paris but he is so. fucking. funny in this movie
I had to look it up, and a gentleman by the name of Ol Parker directed “Ticket to Paradise,” his past credits include the “Mama Mia” sequel and both “Exotic Marigold Hotel” movies, so don’t expect a masterpiece here.
The film is set to be released on October 21st, 2022. A Venice world premiere has been rumored. TIFF will surely pick this one up as a world premiere just to have both stars show up at the festival in September.
“Hope,” Na’s first film in ten years — his last one being the exemplary “The Wailing” —is a gloriously messy, blood-soaked sci-fi epic that may become a cult classic despite—or because of—its polarizing nature.