‘Being the Ricardos’ review: In the hands of Aaron Sorkin, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are reduced to their dullest form
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Dec 08, 2021
3 minutes
There are so many reasons writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” doesn’t work, from the writing to the casting to the pushy scoring, but more than anything it’s the way it reduces talented and complicated people to their blandest form.
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem were never the obvious choices to play Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (nor was Cate Blanchett, who was originally circling the project before Kidman) and that’s not necessarily the issue here — I’m always
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