'Brats' review: McCarthy’s visual style is too fragmented, happy to capture his scrambling camera and sound operators in the frame and changing up his shots from guerilla-style jerky iPhone images to tasteful, polished portraits.
Andrew McCarthy, from left, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore and Jon Cryer attend the "Brats" premiere during the Tribeca Festival at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Friday, June 7, 2024, in New York. He’s 61 now, well-off and trim. He has many accomplishments as an actor but there’s this one thing he finds hard to shake: Back in 1985, he got called something.
But McCarthy’s visual style is too fragmented, happy to capture his scrambling camera and sound operators in the frame and changing up his shots from guerilla-style jerky iPhone images to tasteful, polished portraits. His use of old clips is excellent, incorporating not just scenes from movies but TV interview outtakes, too.
These are the building blocks of a better movie — Gladwell cutely mentions that he used parts of Cryer’s characterHe comes across as a very thoughtful guy, able to quote Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill, reserved, shy and wry, so often deep in his feelings. But this bratty label he cannot shake. He also wrote about it in
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