That kind of integrity, that willingness to be understood as completely dislikable, raises “Kodachrome” to a level it would not reach without him. Insisting on his right to be unpleasant, Harris makes Ben edgier, more self-aware and more impossible to ignore than anyone else would. But Harris brings so much all-in commitment to the part, has so fearlessly invested himself in the character, that we have to sit up and take notice. On paper, sour, unpleasant, self-involved Ben Ryder is a familiar personality, maybe too familiar. The actor plays Benjamin Ryder, “one of the world’s greatest living photographers,” but a failure as a father and a bitter disappointment to his son Matt (the usually comic Jason Sudeikis). Its emotional story of father-son dynamics with a hint of romance thrown in, all set against the world of professional photography, is not without its pro-forma elements. Which is what happens here.Īs written by Jonathan Tropper and directed by Mark Raso, “Kodachrome” is a solid citizen of a movie. No one needs to be told how good the four-time Oscar nominee is, but there is a tendency to take consistently superior work for granted, to forget the way great performers instinctively push past what’s expected and make what could be standard roles transcendent.
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