Bombshell

This is reasonably acted, and has a couple of decently impactful scenes. However ... the three-headed protagonists never really feel more than three different movies going on in parallel (they never really interract as much as they feel like they should), there's some vague attempts at mixing narrative style towards the beginning (as Theron playing Kelly provides opening exposition in the style of a newspiece, walking and talking through the sets) which falls away pretty quickly, it doesn't quite find a central storytelling motor (Kelly feels like she's carrying most of it, except that her mid-film run of not being sure whether or not to speak up about it never feels particularly dynamic), and the gotcha-ending of the Kidman story feels a little cheaply unearned. Robbie's story as a sorta symbolic "every-victim" does have moments when it feels a little exploitative (I'm not entirely convinced we needed the lifted-skirt shot during her confrontation with Alles), more a collection of "traits this character needs to have" than an actual individual. And in a film with at least five Australian cast members, two of whom share a scene with him, Malcolm McDowell's Australian accent as Murdoch could be a whole lot better. There's an obvious reason why this story is being told now (it's topical and Alles is very happily dead and unable to sue), but this doesn't really feel like much depth has been applied.