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Wall Street Journal
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Sorry, Baby' Review: Eva Victor's Story of Survival
'Sorry, Baby' is a campus comedy and a drama of how adulthood moves in, displacing friends and family and making all kinds of demands one feels ill-equipped to meet. But it is also a depiction of surviving sexual assault, the trauma at the bruised heart of a film that can be clumsy and unconvincing one moment, then smart and affecting the next. This is a directorial debut that feels like one, as wobbly as it is welcome. Writer-director Eva Victor stars as Agnes, a young woman who teaches at a small-town college somewhere in cold, coastal New England. It begins at her modest house in the countryside, as a car pulls up and Agnes comes outside to greet her friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie). They were, we learn, graduate students at the college where Agnes still works, bonded by the misery of slogging through their theses together. Lydie has come for a visit but also to attend a dinner with some of their fellow former students, full of reminiscences both wincing and nostalgic. Most of them agree that Agnes had the easiest time of it, as someone adds, 'It wasn't her fault that Decker liked her best.' Agnes tenses, excusing herself soon after.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Where to Watch ‘Sorry, Baby': Is the A24 Film Streaming?
Life goes on, as they say. But sometimes, it can be pretty hard to go with it; such is the case for Agnes in 'Sorry, Baby.' A24's latest film, written and directed by Eva Victor, also stars Victor as Agnes, who faces a life-altering event. Though everyone around her caries on with life as usual, she can't. It's not until a close friend visits her that Agnes realizes the rut she's in, and starts to figure out how to start her life back up again. Here's everything you need to know about the film. 'Sorry, Baby' hits select theaters on June 27. The film will go wide on July 18. You can see if a theater near you is part of the limited release below: AMC Theaters Fandango It is not. For at least several weeks, you'll have to head to the theater if you want to see 'Sorry, Baby.' But it will eventually go to streaming, and as it's an A24 film, it'll head to Max. We'll keep you posted on when exactly that'll be. The official logline reads: 'Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least. When a beloved friend visits on the brink of a major milestone, Agnes starts to realize just how stuck she's been, and begins to work through how to move forward.' 'Sorry, Baby' boasts a cast including Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi and Kelly McCormack. The post Where to Watch 'Sorry, Baby': Is the A24 Film Streaming? appeared first on TheWrap.
Associated Press
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Movie Review: In 'Sorry, Baby,' Eva Victor makes a disarming debut
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor's extraordinary debut 'Sorry, Baby' is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide a tryst with her neighbor. Agnes lives in a quaint New England home where her best friend and fellow former grad student Lydie (Naomi Ackie) is visiting. We are just getting to know each of these characters when a knock comes on the door. Gavin (Lucas Hedges) stands outside confused when Lydie answers. Agnes rushes over to act as though he's mistaken her house for his, and not for the first time. 'God bless your lost soul,' she says, shooing him away. The plot of 'Sorry, Baby' centers around a traumatic experience for Agnes that unfolds in a chapter titled 'The Year With the Bad Thing.' But it would be wrong to define 'Sorry, Baby' — or its singular protagonist — by that 'bad thing.' In this remarkably fully formed debut, the moments that matter are the funny and tender ones that persist amid crueler experiences. Before her script to 'Sorry, Baby' attracted Barry Jenkins as a producer, Victor did improv and made comic social media videos. And the degree to which she's effectively channeled her sly sense of humor and full-bodied resistance to cliche makes 'Sorry, Baby' the immediately apparent revelation of a disarmingly offbeat new voice. The film unfolds in five chapters from across five years of Agnes' life, told out of chronology. That, in itself, is a way to place the 'bad thing' of 'Sorry, Baby' in a reshuffled context. Stasis, healing and friendship are more the guiding framework of Victor's film. The opening tenor of 'Sorry, Baby' is, in a way, the prevailing one. Agnes and Lydie (a terrific Ackie) are best pals whose jokey chemistry is as natural as their protectiveness of each other. At a dinner with their former literature grad students, Lydie clasps Agnes' hand under the table at the mention of their former thesis adviser. In the second chapter, the 'bad thing' one, we find out why. In an unnamed New England liberal arts school, their professor, Preston Decker (Louis Cancelmi), is charming and perceptive. He recognizes Agnes' intelligence and seems to respect her — which makes his betrayal all the more shattering. When the location of one of their meetings shifts last-minute to his home, Victor's camera waits outside while day turns to night. Only when Agnes exits, ashen and horrified, do we pick back up with her as she gets in the car and drives. In the aftermath, the trauma of the rape spills out of Agnes in unpredictable ways and at unexpected moments. With Lydie. Visiting a doctor. At jury duty. With a stray cat. These encounters — some heartwarming, some insensitive — are both Agnes' way of awkwardly processing what she went through and the movie's way of accentuating how people around you, friend or stranger, have a choice of empathy. Most movingly, in the chapter 'The Year With the Good Sandwich,' John Carroll Lynch plays a man who finds her having a panic attack, and sweetly sits down with her in a parking lot. Agnes doesn't process her experience the way a movie character might be expected to — with, say, revenge or sudden catharsis. Hers is a sporadic, often absurd healing that includes turning up at her neighbor's house to borrow some lighter fluid. Lydie is key. This is in many ways a portrait of a friendship, and a particularly lived-in one at that. What it's not so much is a story about sexual assault. Just as Agnes is sarcastically and self-deprecatingly resistant to convention, Victor's film sidesteps the definitions that usually accompany such a story. Originality becomes a kind of survival. 'Sorry, Baby,' an A24 release is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for sexual content and language. Running time: 104 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four.
Screen Geek
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Screen Geek
2025 Box Office Bomb Dominates HBO Max
Subscribers on HBO Max are flocking to one of 2025's box office bombs as the film unexpectedly tops the streaming service's charts. Of course, it's not surprising that this 2025 effort is doing so well on HBO Max following its theatrical release, especially when one considers that it comes from an acclaimed director. As noted via FlixPatrol, at the time of this writing, this film is the #2 title on the streaming platform. It's quite a feat for a movie that struggled at the box office, having earned just barely more than its budget at the box office, grossing $132 million against a $118 million production cost. Impressively, the title stars Robert Pattinson as the lead, with Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Bong Joon Ho both wrote and directed the film which was based on a novel by Edward Ashton. It seems as though the talent from everyone involved has given this title legs beyond its theatrical release. This 2025 film now streaming on HBO Max is none other than Mickey 17 , a sci-fi film set in the year 2054. It revolves around Pattinson's character who joins a space colony. His official title is that of an 'Expendable,' which is an individual that happens to be cloned upon death. While a majority of their memories are retained, they quickly become diluted with each additional copy. It's an interesting endeavor from Bong Joon Ho, and one that probably should have fared better at the box office. Fortunately, it looks like it has been earning viewers with its newfound availability on HBO Max and home video. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates regarding the latest trending titles on HBO Max as we have them. For now, subscribers are able to see Mickey 17 for themselves, and see whether or not the title was deserving of a better box office performance. Especially now that it appears to be doing quite well on streaming.
CNET
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
How to Watch Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' at Home
A new Bong Joon Ho movie is streaming and that's a big deal. After all, he's the director of critically acclaimed flicks such as Memories of Murder, Snowpiercer and the Oscar best picture winner Parasite. In Bong's new dark comedy Mickey 17, which is now available on Max, Robert Pattinson's main character applies to be an "expendable." As the official trailer reveals, the unconventional occupation involves missions that often result in death, with Pattinson's body reprinted every time he croaks. The sci-fi -- Bong's eighth feature film -- also stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Mickey 17 is based on Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7. Other noteworthy Max premieres this month include The Brutalist (already streaming), season 3 of And Just Like That... (streaming May 29) and the new movie Mountainhead (streaming May 31). Max will soon take on the title HBO Max again, but for now, it's still using the one-word moniker. When to watch Mickey 17 on Max Mickey 17 hit Max on May 23 and is available to stream now. If you want a Max subscription, you can choose from a $10 per month Basic with Ads, $17 per month ad-free Standard or $21 per month ad-free Premium. Max also carries one of Bong's other movies, the 2006 monster flick The Host. You don't have to get Max to watch Mickey 17 at home -- your other option is to rent it at Amazon or Fandango at Home. That will cost you $6.
