More movie viewing

Here are the movies I caught up with this week:

• Neil Young: Heart of Gold again demonstrates Jonathan Demme’s knack for making true concert films — this is as much a character study, with long closeups on Young in particular, as it is a document of a musical performance. Three-and-a-half stars.
• Strangers With Candy, a prequel to the Comedy Central series, is perhaps most notable for the fact that Stephen Colbert co-stars and co-wrote the screenplay. This is not great intellectual comedy, but it’s still occasionally hilarious (particularly Colbert’s character, a closeted-gay, born-again-Christian high school science teacher). Two-and-a-half stars.
• Death Proof is half a movie expanded into a standalone feature, and it feels like it. Read my review here. Two stars.

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