![]() ![]() Even with those positive notes, there is just not enough going on in Alone Together to care about. Setting that wrong judgment aside, Holmes is one of the bright spots here, where her acting is charming, authentic, and gentle, while her writing and directing is obviously an artist working stuff out. Truth be told, I’ve had a bit of an allergy to Katie Holmes, as I was always team Michelle Williams when it came to Dawson’s Creek, and her acting career hasn’t changed my view since then. I guess it is those who quarantine together end up finding that spark of love…Or something like that. Instead of making the weekend a complete disaster, June and Charlie decide to make it work and soon the two are making connections, while relationships back home begin to deteriorate, and soon the cooped up guests become romantically attracted to one another. What ends up happening is that things shut down, with June missing the last train out, and taking an Uber out Then we learn that John is staying with his parents and when June arrives it turns out that the house has been double-booked, where a cute guy named Charlie (Jim Sturgess) has begun to settle in. It’s in that moment where June has an AIRBnB booked upstate, with hopes to get away with John and refresh while the pandemic cools down. The lead character is June (Holmes) who lives in New York with her boyfriend John (Derek Luke), who we catch up with at the start of March, and right when the Covid outbreak hits. It’s all locked up inside with nowhere to go. It’s a relationship drama but since it’s set in a time where people are not interacting with one another, there is not much theater to care about any of these characters. That seems to be the knee jerk reaction from Katie Holmes, directing her second film- Alone Together, which might be one of the better movies made about the pandemic, and still falls short of being something I would recommend. ![]() It’s not exactly a time we want to re-live, but I get why many artists viewed this as a moment to act on the creative inspiration, and since we were all stuck inside, the only way we could react was by trying to say something. ![]() A set of movies that were made during the pandemic, a time of inactivity, and fear because a virus was swirling around us. The concept of a “COVID film” is still weird to me. STARRING: KATIE HOLMES, JIM STURGESS, MELISSA LEO, DEREK LUKEĪ’s RATING: 2 STARS (Out of 4) ![]()
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