Woman In Gold Is Pure Gold

Rating: 8/10 (14 May 2015)

First of all, there can never be a bad movie if it has within its cast the superb Helen Mirren. She is that good. And Ryan Reynolds is no slouch in the acting field, either. I so enjoyed his role in this movie as a young attorney, feeling his way into a career and having the case of a lifetime dropped in his lap. Watching him learn and cope was perfect. Nicely written, well plotted, and I very much liked the shifting back and forth from the early war days as the legal problem was set up to the present time as the solution unfolded. For me, there was one scene where Katie Holmes, as Reynold's wife, has a rather abrupt flip-flop in her thinking that had me convinced the writers couldn't find a better way to accomplish thator perhaps they simply ran out of timewho knows. But all in all it was a work of art about art. A fine film.