Shirley (2020)

Does it say more about me or this drama that the movie, a choppily edited, goal-diffuse and, regarding the characters and their behaviours, a largely psychologically incoherent one (who knows scene-to-scene, for example, if Shirley and her husband love each other or not, are co-conspirators in mischief or not, are each other's bitterest enemy or most devoted supporter or not) ended without me knowing Shirley, the title character, is Shirley Jackson, the famous US horror novellist I've since had to learn about on Wikipedia?

★★☆☆☆

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The Number 23 (2007)

Horrible, like Darren Aronofsky's Pi but for dummies, with Jim Carrey deadly serious throughout the nonsense and viewers left wondering if Joel Schumacher, for convenience, has just started numbering the turkeys he churns out.

★☆☆☆☆

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