![]() ![]() You definitely won’t want to miss national treasure Bill Duke in his element. Julia Fox and Ray Liotta play a married couple, and that’s all I’ll say about that. Thrillingly, Brendan Fraser makes a long-overdue return to screen as organized crime middle-manager Doug Jones, who won’t give any specifics about what he’s recruited Russo and Goynes to do along with a guy simply called Charley, played by Succession stand-out Kieran Culkin. The three of them, plus a sweet kid sister, find themselves in the middle of Goynes and Russos’ job. ![]() HBO kid regular Noah Jupe is their over-curious moody teen, Matthew. She Dies Tomorrow filmmaker Amy Seimetz, who wrote and directed the first season of the Soderbergh-produced series The Girlfriend Experience, plays depressed and slightly unruly housewife Mary Wertz the beloved Stranger Things actor David Harbour is her emotionally absent husband, Matt. Goynes, though, is less focused on Russo’s character and more attentive to his own possible gains he has accounts to settle. That they have to make a team is an insult to Russo, who’s an overt racist, suspicious of Black people’s greediness, as he calls it. Goynes and Russo know and fear a lot of the same people, but they’re fundamentally opposed. Del Toro plays a cryptic Italian lowlife, Richard Russo Cheadle is overambitious aging fuck-up Curt Goynes. Soderbergh regular Don Cheadle and Traffic alum Benicio Del Toro head up the cast as two Detroit hoods who get in over their heads. Soderbergh, working as he often does with casting director Carmen Cuba, has assembled a top tier cast of character actors with a sprinkling of previous blockbuster stars. But the jockeying is futile in some cases, of course: Whoever’s not at the top already knows they’re probably not going to get there. How, then, does this den of thieves navigate the terrain of big money backstabbing to get what’s theirs? In Steven Soderbergh’s latest movie for Warner Media/HBOMax, No Sudden Move, men and women jockey for their place in the pecking order of American wealth and status in the 1950s. Except, it turns out the gig is not so good. A few small-time criminals-freelancers, if you will-get what seems to be a good gig from the organized crime bosses.
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