Magic Hour
By Paul Weissman May 15, 2026
For a story that teases some metaphysical quandaries, it is doggedly earthbound.
For a story that teases some metaphysical quandaries, it is doggedly earthbound.
A quietly powerful debut feature, set in the American West in 2008, at the height of the financial and housing crisis.
James L. Brooks’s new film feels like it was written by an extraterrestrial being who has consumed too much media from the 1990s and 2000s and attempts to re-create how the human species behaves.
An earnest, though innocuous, feel-good movie for the armchair traveler.
People behaving nice and helpful to one another, despite chaos, seems novel these days, perhaps even groundbreaking.
If you are a fan of gritty 1990s indie film and have a taste for screwball comedy and eccentric Coen-esque characters, then Bunny is for you.
Director Mary Bronstein bravely and imaginatively confronts head-on issues that many films would shy away from.
The script is consistently funny and astutely written, where sorrow often collides with humor.
Essentially a portrait of male insecurity, with two men clueless about how to handle the women in their lives.