Booooooo, men!!!

Rating: Null/10 (26 February 2018)

This movie epitomizes the depths to which Hollywood will sink in an attempt to redeem its misogynistic reputation for by producing formulaic, feminist schlock in the hopes the gullible public will eat it up. The essential and underlying theme of this movie is "men BAD", because, you know, all men will rape anything that moves if given half a chance. And the only redeeming men are the ones who display no signs of "toxic masculinity" (i.e. the effeminate poster salesman). Meanwhile, the anti-hero is a foul-mouthed old hag deliberately cast by a recognizably aging actress so no one can claim the "hot chick won the Oscar" this year. And of course, there's the obligatory (and completely gratuitous) scene where the main character bad mouths the Catholic church, because of course everyone in Mississippi is Catholic (no, really...just suspend your disbelief here one more time) and they film needs to take a swipe at every form of patriarchy known to mankind. Add to this the very predictable "all southerners are ignorant, racist red-necks" and boy howdy, you got yerself a real Hollywood piece of Oscar-bait (or crap...depending on how many brain-cells/capacity to reason you have left).