Cats

I don’t like to use the word flawed when talking about movies, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. Cats is deeply, deeply flawed. It’s the sort of flawed that makes the movie’s mere existence a flabbergasting paradox, leaving one with questions about the layers and layers Tom Hooper had to work through to get the $95 million to produce and release such a broken, ill-conceived piece of cinema. He convinced studio executives, producers, production designers, and visual effects supervisors that his...