Simon Curtis’ The Art of Racing in the Rain is kind of two different movies in one. First, you’ve got the treacly, familiar (but competently executed) melodrama you’re probably expecting, complete with all the requisite milestones of birth, marriage, illness...
With Goodbye Christopher Robin, director Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn, Woman in Gold) continues his tradition of making handsome, sturdy movies with a dearth of subtext. It’s not that the film is a disaster; the cast, for instance, provide...
