At once charismatic and off-kilter, Steven Soderbergh’s latest feature now streaming on HBO MAX stars Meryl Streep as a Pulitzer-prize winning novelist who invites her two oldest friends (Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest) and her nephew (Lucas Hedges) on a luxury ship for a voyage to the UK where she’s slated to receive a prestigious award. Also on board is Gemma Chan, playing the novelist’s literary agent desperate to garner information about her client’s progress on a new manuscript. The film’s project is unclear, at times appearing as an awkward comedy of errors, at other times a half-snarky half-sincere meditation on the process and price of creativity. Still, the performances are compelling, the setting gorgeous, the cinematography crisp, making up for the story’s overall disorientation.
Let Them All Talk
1 hour 53 min
