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For those of us who watched Tom & Jerry as kids, this is a wonderful mix-up of old and new. It brings back happy memories. It's a nice combo of animation and live action, with great shots of pre-Covid Manhattan. I laughed a lot. There is slapstick, but also a lot of clever and witty touches that you have to be paying attention to catch. The animation is exquisite. And there are a lot of other animated animals, who help the feature length time move along. The chase scenes are excellent. The weakness is the plot involving a celebrity wedding at an ultra-posh hotel, and maybe the fact that Tom & Jerry are going to have a hard time carrying a feature length movie along no matter what. I think a good 20 min could have been chopped and it would have been a better movie. Chloe Moretz does a good job as the main live action person....the only human who seems to be able communicate with Tom and Jerry and to treat them as equals.

Wow! I went to see this knowing that horses would be ridden shots would be fired, and blood would be spilled, but not much else. I put my trust in Jacques Audiard, my favorite French director, directing his first English-language film. This is rich with moral complexity, like some of his earlier films, like "A Prophet" and "Read My Lips."

This is a western that has a lot of action, as do most. But it's as much character-driven as it is plot driven. I especially liked John C. Reilly as Eli, the older, and much more mature of the two Sisters brothers. The rest of the cast is outstanding...especially Joachim Phoenix as the other brother, Charlie, and Jake Gllendaal, as a frenemy.

It's also interesting to see things that were new, or new-ish inventions, that were mostly unknown to people of 1852, when the film is set. Things like toothbrushes and flush toilets.

A satisfying film, with food for thought at the end.