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11AM — Throughout her life, Lee Miller was fashion model, fashion photographer, surrealist artist, war correspondent, and cook book author.

This is her story, told in a straightforward way without many twists or big surprises. A clear start and end. If you’re vaguely familiar with Miller’s career you could be tempted to say it’s boring. Nell Minow, writing for Roger Ebert:

It is more about “then this happened, and then this other thing happened” than who Miller was, why she did what she did, and how it affected her.

But that’s what you get when you don’t fictionalise someone’s story or add excessive Hollywood pomp. It’s makes this kind of movie, the bio pic, better and more realistic. By just focussing on her time as a war correspondent, the film shines a light on Miller’s most important work as journalist. And you still get that claustrophobic feeling she must have felt in the face of the horrors of the holocaust.

Seeing Andy Samberg, who I’ve only ever known as a comedian, in the role of David Scherman, Lee’s travel companion through a war-torn Europe, was … surprising. Like when Adam Sandler did Uncut Gems, my first thought was “is this going to work?” It did with Sandler but not so much with Samberg. He just can’t shake that characteristic smirk from his face. Even in the face of abhorrent crimes he always looks like he’s just step away from making a silly remark.