‘Here’ Is the Biggest Pile of Schmaltz You’ll See This Year

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( movie review [Here Is the Biggest Pile of Schmaltz You’ll See This Year]( Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for a movie that uses a bold formal device to incredibly hokey ends. Photo: TriStar Pictures/Everett Collection Tom Hanks and Robin Wright star alongside a living room in Here. The movie brings them together onscreen for the first time since Forrest Gump, and there’s something very funny about this reunion playing second fiddle to a Naugahyde sectional. The room is handsome enough, as functional living spaces go, with a bay window facing the historic house across the street and a mantelpiece that serves as the focus until attention is usurped by the arrival of the television. Hanks and Wright are two of the many actors who end up passing through it over the course of the film, which, like the 1994 Best Picture winner, was written by Eric Roth and directed by Robert Zemeckis. The conceit of Here, which was adapted from the comic strip by Richard McGuire, is that time moves while the camera doesn’t, not until it’s released in the final shot. From Here’s chosen angle, we watch generations of residents move in and out and do all sorts of living in between; we only ever see the outside when the film visits a period before the house was built. It’s a bold formal choice to regard the world through a fixed point in space, and, unfortunately, it’s all in service of the biggest pile of schmaltz you’ll see this year. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: [Don’t Throw Stones]( • The Diplomat: [Expect the Unexpected (Episode 1)](, [The Job Has a Morally Repugnant Element (Episode 2)]( • Agatha All Along: [Like Mother(s) Like Son(s)]( • Love Is Blind: [Dropping a Grenade]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Best Celebrity Costumes of Halloween 2024 Kerry Washington’s Challengers costume comes complete with her “little white boys” from Scandal.]( By Bethy Squires [The 32 Best Horror Movies to Watch on Every Streaming Service From Psycho on Netflix to Smile on Prime Video, there are plenty of great options on the services you’re probably already paying for.]( By Brian Tallerico [For the Love of Pop Culture Only Murders in the Building returned to the ties that bind in season four.]( By Roxana Hadadi [Horror Movies Are Just Trying to Survive After the runaway success of Terrifier 3, the industry braces for a wave of copycats and the death of its genre.]( By Chris Lee [Mariah Carey’s Lawyer Got Inducted Into the Rock Hall Before Her And she’s not thrilled about it.]( By Devon Ivie [Every Marvel TV Show of the MCU Era, Ranked There have been 24 TV shows since the dawn of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and some of them are even pretty good.]( By Nola Pfau [Saturday Night Live Season 50 Bets Big on Bill Burr Burr will host the first post-election episode of the season. Then, Charli “Kamala is brat” XCX pulls double duty.]( By Jason P. Frank [The Bravo Audience Calls It for Kamala Quell your election anxiety for a brief moment by watching a clip from Watch What Happens Live. No joke.]( By Jason P. Frank [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 23-Down, Four Letters: Sports award since 1993 Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: MARVEL, Everett Collection (Focus Features, Warner Brothers) [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name a George A. Romero movie with “dead” or “death” in the title? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Randy Shropshire, Laura Lezza), Rick Kern/FilmMagic A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved