The movie “Incitement” is about the year leading up to the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, from the point of view of the assassin. This film has subtitles and seems to be half a documentary and half a movie, with not much of a real story. The problem with this film is that most if not all of the events that lead up to this assassination are too boring to hold anyone’s attention for very long. I was thinking of leaving this movie early many times during the two hours along with the constant checking of my watch.

As far as the very high ratings of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes I have no idea why the critics liked this movie that much. More in line are the average ratings on IMDB of only 7.3. My rating is about 60% and I do not recommend this movie, mainly because it is too long and too boring. The only thing I found interesting about this story, was that main character who assassinated Rabin in 1995, Yehuda Nahari, only spent 16 years in jail for murdering the Israeli Prime Minister – which makes absolutely no sense. The reason why his sentence was only 16 years was never explained.

I disagree with Parasite being the best picture this year.  The Irishman, that did not win any of the 10 nominations was the best picture, followed by Marriage Story. 

Performance by an actor in a leading role nominees:

Antonio Banderas in PAIN AND GLORY

Leonardo DiCaprio in ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD

Adam Driver in MARRIAGE STORY

Joaquin Phoenix in JOKER – WINNER

Jonathan Pryce in THE TWO POPES

Performance by an actor in a supporting role nominees:

Tom Hanks in A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Anthony Hopkins in THE TWO POPES

Al Pacino in THE IRISHMAN

Joe Pesci in THE IRISHMAN

Brad Pitt in ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD – WINNER

Performance by an actress in a leading role nominees:

Cynthia Erivo in HARRIET

Scarlett Johansson in MARRIAGE STORY

Saoirse Ronan in LITTLE WOMEN

Charlize Theron in BOMBSHELL

Renée Zellweger in JUDY – WINNER

Performance by an actress in a supporting role nominees:

Kathy Bates in RICHARD JEWELL

Laura Dern in MARRIAGE STORY – WINNER

Scarlett Johansson in JOJO RABBIT

Florence Pugh in LITTLE WOMEN

Margot Robbie in BOMBSHELL

Best motion picture of the year nominees:

FORD V FERRARI

THE IRISHMAN

JOJO RABBIT

JOKER

LITTLE WOMEN

MARRIAGE STORY

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ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD

PARASITE – WINNER

The new movie “Birds of Prey” is unusual for several basic reasons. First of all the title of this movie – “Bird of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn), has to be the longest title in movie history . Secondly, this film is a sub-sequel to the very bad movie “Suicide Squad”, released in 2016 starring Will Smith and Margo Robbie. Why is there a sequel to a bad movie released almost 4 years ago? There should be an unwritten law to make sure that sequels are only made from previous good movies, never bad ones.

The big problem with this new film is that it has a weirdness that will remind everyone of Suicide Squad – not a good thing. The other problem is that this movie is weird bad, never weird good or ever entertaining. Considering that Margo Robbie’s acting career in Hollywood is going so well, it is surprising, despite the money she was paid, that she would agree to once again play this strange insane character. Hopefully this will be the last Bird of Prey movie. There is nothing new in this story, its the same violent Karate scenes that we have all seen many times before. Weirdness and craziness does not give a new angle on a very tired retread action movie.  

The Rotten Tomatoes ratings for this film are in the high 80% range, and the critics are dead wrong. My rating is about 45% and I do not recommend this movie.