Decent, but Over-Hyped

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2020)

I came here to say that the movie is decent, but getting pretty goddam overrated. It's a perfectly good watch, the plot revolves around a poor family worming their way into a rich household by getting the employees fired, but at this point, it won the Palm D'or at Cannes, Best picture and Best Foreign Picture at the Academy Awards, and no doubt collected a whole slew of other trophies and ribbons and participation prizes and good-job stickers pretty much everywhere else, but at some point enough is enough. It's good. Hell, it's perfectly decent. But it's quickly becoming one of the most over-rated movies of the past half-decade. "Masterpiece!" calm down, a little early to call it. give it some time. "Phenomenal", "Amazing!", "Astounding!", "breathtaking!", "It cured blindness!", "It made my cancer recede!". Every year you get that sort of movie and morons jumping on the bandwagon without giving it some space first. It's a likeable movie, but it seems like it could become one of those cases where it's gradually soured by the obnoxious fan-base overdoing it. Give it a watch, sure, but take the opinions of the easily-impressed with a grain of salt.