The movies do not deserve Mary Louise Parker.
No one has ever used iced coffee as an omnipresent prop better.
When it comes to film, however, you often felt like this top-shelf actor consistently gets short shrift.
Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri in ‘Omni Loop.‘Magnolia Pictures
that stops right on the edge of sentimentality.
You could watch Parker breathe life into this woman wrestling with a metaphysical conundrum forever.
Luckily, when Zoya was a girl, she found a bottle of pills on a golf course.
If she takes one, it allows Lowe to go back one week in time.
Every time her nose bleeds, signaling the end is nigh, she pops a pill.
Rinse, repeat ad infinitum.
That Murray milestone in philosophically knotty comedies went for broad laughs and ultimately, romantic bliss.
This goes for something closer to the Kubler-Ross model of nonstop grief over guffaws.
becomes something extraordinarily emotionally resonant.
Theres so much she does with stillness, or simply letting her expression go slack for a moment.
It feels like a victory lap.
