Thelma | Review by: Benjamin Garrett
Step aside, Tom Cruise. There’s a new action star in town, and her name is June Squibb. Thelma puts a clever senior’s spin on the spy thriller genre, with a hilarious and heartwarming look at the challenges of growing old. This movie excels in its high-stakes depiction of a relatively low-stakes series of events. An elderly woman is defrauded by a telephone scam (something that happens countless times each day in real life), so she takes it into her own hands to track down and reclaim her money. She enlists the help of an old friend to help her traverse the city streets in search of those who wronged her. The thing is, she’s over 90 years old, and the movie never lets you forget it. It’s shot, edited, scored and paced like a Mission: Impossible flick, but always abides by its characters’ age related limitations. It would be easy for this to stray into spoof territory, and feel like one big joke at the expense of the elderly. It never does, though. It’s a lot of fun watching these tw
