Thelma (2024)

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   When you don't have access to the Beekeeper or the Equalizer, you have to take things into your own hands. The eponymous Thelma may be 93, but she likes doing things for herself, like tracking down the scammers who wrung 10,000 dollars out of her on a phone call. She's helped on this mission by Richard Roundtree (Shaft!) in his last role (RIP), and her "man in the chair" Fred Hechinger (her hapless grandson). It's not QUITE Punisher Granny as the trailers make it seems, but it does poke fun at action movie tropes by giving them a silver finish. Ultimately, it's about how the middle generation - here played to comic perfection by Parker Posey and Clark Gregg - infantilize their aged mother and their twentysomething son. And how the former rejects that vision of herself and the latter seems conditioned by it and has to get beyond it. A lot of laughs, and June Squibb the strong heart of the film thanks to which the film works as well as it does. 2 months 2 weeks ago

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