Queen Bees’ Review: Mean Girls on Social Security
by Glenn Kenny, NYT
06/11/2021
by Glenn Kenny, NYT
06/11/2021
In what may be a first for cinema, “Queen Bees,” directed by Michael Lembeck, depicts a senior citizen using a mobile phone with no difficulty whatsoever. The senior in question is Helen, played by Ellen Burstyn, an independent woman who’s calling the living center for elders that keeps sending her brochures. In emphatic tones she tells the representative that she’s not moving from her house, which is pleasant but feels a little empty...