“Three Thousand Years of Longing,” George Miller’s first film since “Mad Max: Fury Road,” is an oddly inactive movie, Anthony Lane writes.
How you become a genie is anyone’s guess. Maybe you get a MacArthur Genie Grant or something. What matters is that, once you’re in the job, you’re there for life, although be warned: that life may not be as freewheeling as you’d like. The opening statement of Robin Williams’s genie, in “Aladdin” , tells of a painful detention. “Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!” he cries, sprung at last from his lamp.
The highlights are all historical flashbacks. The first, replete with famous names, finds the djinn making nice to the Queen of Sheba, only to be usurped by the arrival of Solomon, if you please. The next port of call is the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, where a sinister slugabed retires to a lair hung with sable fur and cultivates a harem; so generously proportioned are its inhabitants that Lucian Freud would have taken one look and sent out for more paint.
It seems only fitting that “The Good Boss,” a new movie from Fernando León de Aranoa, should star Javier Bardem in the title role. So much of Bardem’s career, after all, has been spent in the enticing portrayal of power-mongers. Consider the sadists with unorthodox coiffures in “No Country for Old Men” , “Skyfall” , and “The Counselor” .
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