Thunderbolts (2025)

I think Florence Pugh is great as Yelena Belova, the main character in a thrown-together-by-chance superhero ensemble called "Thunderbolts", a sort of rough-around-the-edges Avengers group ('the Bvengers') whose first movie outing cleverly takes on movie audiences' superhero fatigue by trumping it - the characters here are worldweary, eye-rolling rejects, and that includes the always terrific Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the cumbersomely named Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, an unflappable corrupt agent navigating career turmoil of her own callous creation.

★★★★☆

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Enough Said (2013)

At around 90 minutes, this comedy is barely longer than a tv show and in fact star Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva, a divorced, single parent masseuse who, through a big coincidence, ends up dating the ex-husband of a client, is such great company that when the movie ends you'll wish it were a tv series and the character of Eva one you could catch up with again.

★★★★☆

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