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Let Them All Talk

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Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by Gregory Jacobs
Written by Deborah Eisenberg
With: Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Dianne Wiest, Lucas Hedges, Gemma Chan, Daniel Algrant, and John Douglas Thompson
Cinematography: Steven Soderbergh
Editing: Steven Soderbergh
Music: Thomas Newman
Runtime: 113 min
Release Date: 10 December 2020
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
Soderbergh tosses out much of Eisenberg’s script and has his A-listers improvise their way through this story of three old friends on a transatlantic crossing. Streep, Bergen, and Wiest are great together and individually, but the resulting film comes off as forced and meandering. It's odd to make a film about a celebrated writer that doesn’t value the contributions of its writer, but that’s in line with Soderbergh’s process these days - he does his own shooting and editing and seems pleased that his recent movies look like crap. I watched this on a plane, which feels appropriate for how it was made. I think I’m only gonna watch his movies on planes from now on unless he decides to value the art of cinema again.