Acrimony

Gimly

October 4, 2018

5/10

If you had just copped the line notes on _Acrimony_, you could be forgiven for assuming this was your average Lifetime movie faire, but _Acrimony_ allows for its core characters a complexity that you would never find in that sort. There are absolutely imperfections in the movie, most of which I assume come to us from budgetary constraints, and even those aside, _Acrimony_ is still not exactly breaking moulds or blazing trail - but it is decent, and not exactly like anything I personally have see…

It’s always a bad sign when the first thing we see in a movie is the dictionary definition of the title. It’s bad because it assumes that we’re too ignorant to know what the word means — in this case, ‘acrimony,’ which I would say ranks lowish in the Hemingway-Faulkner scale —, and why would we want to watch a film that underestimates, sight unseen, our intelligence? Moreover, if writer/director Tyler Perry deems his chosen title to be so obscure that he had best not even risk giving us the …