Causeway
2022
**½
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond, Jayne Houdyshell, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Russell Harvard, Fred Weller
While Lynsey attempts to recover at home in New Orleans after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan, she befriends James, another mentally and physically scarred individual. Lila Neugebauer's feature debut looks good, and Lawrence and Henry give very respectable performances in the lead. The credits list three screnwriters but, in all honesty, this minimalistic and incidental mood piece doesn't have much of a script at all. Lynsey's terrible injury plays no part after the first fifteen minutes and the film never goes more than skin-deep into the characters.
