Can You Every Forgive Me? is an enjoyable movie with Melissa
McCarthy playing a very believable and funny-by-happenstance woman who finds
herself forging letters by famous authors.
All the levels are set at good: Good acting, good
production, good writing, etc. Melissa McCarthy and her co-star, Richard E.
Grant were both nominated for best actress and supporting actor respectively at
the Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG Awards. After finally watching CYEFM?, I am
surprised they were nominated because there wasn’t anything great or inspiring
about this film. My suspicion is that voting committees were impressed by
McCarthy’s non-comedy performance, which was good, but not award worthy.
I would watch this again and would recommend it, but I don’t
think it offers anything spectacular to the cinematic world so I’m giving it
three stars***.
Mini rant: Vice, Green Book, I, Tonya, Get Out, Lady Bird, Birdman,
Her, American Hustle were all nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Motion
Picture – Musical or Comedy. Can You Ever Forgive Me? gets nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best
Motion Picture – Drama. What the hell is that about?
I checked the DVD out from my local library.
I will never understand how things are put into the Musical or Comedy category. Out of the movies you listed Get Out, Birdman, and Her were not musicals or comedies. And A Star Is Born, which I would consider a musical, was not in that category. What is actually funny about comedy is that comedies are never nominated. They need to change the name.
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