Mediocre flick with terrific acting

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2020)

The acting was terrific, but this writer/director...ugh!
I do not understand why he gets so many accolades. The guy is clearly a misogynistic self-absorbed doofus. I feel sorry for his current wife because someday she, too, will undoubtedly find herself portrayed "fairly" with all her brilliant language and dirty laundry displayed publicly and for his profit, because, of course, it's all for him to show how brainy he is that he can attract such women and how deep he is that he manages to cull their best lines for himself because, of course, their lines are all intended for his work. Meanwhile, the male character will be whitewashed into this nice guy where bad things just happen to him, at the hands of a woman, with zero reflection or accountability for his own part in the relationship. Again, ugh.
By the way, this was done much better in Kramer v. Kramer, a film where the adults actually grew from self-reflection.