Since my son was born a year ago today (happy birthday Sammy!), I have seen a grand total of
one movie in the theater (the Coens'
True Grit - not bad...) and thus have been depending on Netflix to satisfy my film fix. For obvious reasons, my wife and I have been bad about turning over our Netflix discs lately, but fortunately the video rental company has a decent growing selection of movies available for instant streaming. Kelly Reichardt's 2006 film
Old Joy caught my eye because of the glowing reviews it had received upon its release and because I had enjoyed the minimalist pleasures of the director's follow-up
Wendy and Lucy. Unfortunately, the movie did not live up to the "hype" (if you can call it that for a movie that raked in $255,923 in domestic totals) and left me more than a little bored, which is an unforgivable cinematic crime.
