Strongly recommended. Be forewarned, this is a sad movie. The title is misleading. It's is really a divorce and there is a relentless, grinding awfulness to this story. Despite my failed marriages, I never went through the courtroom nastiness suffered by Charlie (Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson, Her) but there is a more subtle agony that we did share. Marriage is a secret place, even if you are both public people. But getting divorced invites everyone into your most painful closet. And Marriage Story is all about this and well acted, too. Unlike Oscar, I wasn't as taken with Laura Dern (Wild), who just extracts her Big Little Lies bitchiness. My initial reaction, however, was that we don’t know enough about why Nicole was so miserable; her dialogue leaves many gaps. But sometimes even those in the middle of it don’t know for sure why things went wrong.
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