Clooney and Pitt have reached the age where they know it's useless to pretend they're something they're not. Their faces look handsomely lived in; the whispers of gray in their artfully sculpted chin stubble feel honest and earned.
In this late-2024 movie season, if you find yourself wishing for something more... look to the women, who insist on pushing themselves out of the comfort zone rather than settling into it.
Demi Moore in Coralie Fargeat's horror-of-aging black comedy The Substance, Nicole Kidman in Halina Reijn's May-December sizzler Babygirl, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodovar's moving and provocative The Room Next Door: These big-name movie stars are pushing into new territory.
As I watched Clooney's character drive around nighttime New York with the silky strains of Sade's 1980s hit Smooth Operator floating from his car stereo, it occurred to me that guys can afford nostalgia; women need to be modern every minute, or they risk being left behind.
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