Joy is the type of movie we need more of.

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2015)

This review has a few spoilers.
David O Russell and Jennifer Lawrence have done it again, with Bradley Cooper coming in at the midpoint.
Though I feel this time they might not get the Oscar, I feel they deserve it more for JOY than for any other film they've done as a team so far.
This is a rags to riches story, but it is RAW. You watch the main character shatter to pieces, with her own family holding the clubs.
While some of the dialogue is a bit too on-the-nose, especially near the end, the script was wonderfully done.
The director knew how to linger on a shot just enough to convey what was needed, even if words weren't used.
While judging anybody's acting ability has hardly been a great skill of mine, from what I can tell the acting was superb. Anyone who has ever wanted more out of their lives so far - they will become Joy for the duration of the movie.
I wrote a blog post of business lessons learned from this, which you can read at www.authordavid.com but they contained far too many spoilers to justify including here.
If you've already seen star wars (or don't care) and you want something real and relatable for your creative, inventive spirit, this is the movie for you.