Review of Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) by Dr_Spokchild — 23 Jun 2019

Kathy Bates never fails to deliver loathsome in several SHADEs of mad with a perfect sense of timing. This is a true indie-film with its lead, acting for the role, not the fame or the glory, something you don't see too often anymore.

Kathy lets the plot take the lead as we careen up, down, and around the roller coaster of living life one day at a time - as a new criminal - shedding off her years as well known columnist for the New Yorker to embrace the voices, tempo, meter, and word choice of her literary forgeries.

Desperation, skyhigh NYC rents, plenty of booze, and creeping old age all play into the writer's collapsing world as she's fired by her employer, left by her agent, and hounded by her landlord, all alone without a partner/girlfriend.

She's pushed into committing crime by writing - the only thing she knows to do well, which is a testament to her talent.