May December

Name: May December
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 17, 2023
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Charles Melton, Cory Michael Smith, D.W. Moffett, Drew Scheid, Elizabeth Yu

2023

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Netflix | Release Date: November 17, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Charles Melton, Cory Michael Smith, D.W. Moffett, Drew Scheid, Elizabeth Yu, Hans Obma, Julianne Moore, Kelvin Han Yee, Natalie Portman, Piper Curda

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Streams on Netflix beginning December 1, 2023.

Summary: After their relationship ignited a tabloid saga two decades ago, Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) now lead a seemingly perfect suburban life. Their domestic bliss is disrupted when Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a famous television actress, arrives in their tight-knit community to research her upcoming role as Gracie. AsAfter their relationship ignited a tabloid saga two decades ago, Gracie (Julianne Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) now lead a seemingly perfect suburban life. Their domestic bliss is disrupted when Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a famous television actress, arrives in their tight-knit community to research her upcoming role as Gracie. As Elizabeth ingratiates herself into the everyday lives of Gracie and Joe, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing long-dormant emotions to resurface.… Expand

Director: Todd Haynes

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 113 min

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Aja Romano

Jan 5, 2024

If May December were less self-aware, it might belong in the category of camp or failed melodrama; if it were less earnest, it might earn the title of tongue-in-cheek satire. But ultimately, the movie’s discordant aesthetic isn’t coy. It’s about revealing the nightmarish circus that Joe has survived with quiet resilience. Read full review

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Liz Braun

Nov 15, 2023

May December is a movie about moral gray zones, a look at contemporary culture through the unique Todd Haynes lens. What’s involved are great writing and great performances. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Nov 16, 2023

This is a juicy, outré exercise that gets its kicks from booting its audience into deliberately uncomfortable corners and then leaving them there to stew. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 16, 2023

With Samy Burch’s razor-sharp script providing some fantastically flourishing dialogue passages, frequent Haynes collaborator Julianne Moore delivering the latest in a long line of magnificently calibrated and memorable performances, and Moore’s fellow Oscar winner Natalie Portman turning in equally layered work, this is an intricately crafted study of people who are experts at putting on facades and all too skilled in the art of deception. Read full review

The Film Stage Luke Hicks

May 22, 2023

It would be very fair to expect a movie about a woman who raped a child and her future family’s reckoning with that to be dark, heavy, even overbearing. But May December is more funny than it is fervent, a bona fide spring suburban anthem, an American malady in chrysalis. Read full review

Slashfilm Lex Briscuso

May 30, 2023

May December is an intricate patchwork quilt of melodrama and stark reality woven into one big blanket of suppression. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Nov 15, 2023

At times, May December feels like an interrogation of the elusive nature of truth. Read full review

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