Marriage Story

Marriage Story features two strong performances by its central characters, Kylo Ren and Black Widow.  They started out as happily married couple, but Kylo is frustrated that the Black Widow "took his youth", and Black Widow is bitter about living in New York, when Kylo "promised" that they could move to California to be closer to her family.  This wouldn't be such a heartbreaking film, except that they have a 6 year old son, and apparently they can't decide who should get the couch (even though it seems pretty obvious since Kylo is the one who brought it to the relationship).  Laura Dern plays the opposite of her role in this year's Little Women, Alan Alda plays himself as a lawyer, Ray Liotta plays himself as a lawyer, and Wallace Shawn disappoints as a member of Kylo's theater troupe (because he never utters the phrase "inconceivable", even though it would have worked plenty of times).  It's a good thing that Black Widow is such a good writer, and is able to express her feeling through words so well; otherwise we wouldn't have gotten that amazing happy ending.

Wallace Shawn Disappoints in Marriage Story