{"id":2255201,"date":"2026-01-28T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2255201"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:00:34","slug":"oscar-winners-natalie-portman-and-catherine-zeta-jones-trapped-in-terrible-comedy-the-gallerist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscar-winners-natalie-portman-and-catherine-zeta-jones-trapped-in-terrible-comedy-the-gallerist\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Catherine Zeta-Jones trapped in terrible comedy &#8216;The Gallerist&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2Fnewspress-collage-u5xxqfs52-1769628542358.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261769610623\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PARK CITY, Utah \u2014 An annoying new comedy starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega asks whether a corpse is art or not.<\/p>\n<div 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class=\"icon-star review-block-star\" stroke=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\" fill=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\" stroke-width=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" height=\"13px\" width=\"13px\">\n\t<defs>\n\t\t<lineargradient id=\"half-gradient\">\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"50%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--fill-color)\"\/>\n\t\t\t<stop stop-opacity=\"1\" offset=\"0%\" stop-color=\"var(--review-block-star--empty-color)\"\/>\n\t\t<\/lineargradient>\n\t<\/defs>\n\t<path d=\"M3.612 15.443c-.386.198-.824-.149-.746-.592l.83-4.73L.173 6.765c-.329-.314-.158-.888.283-.95l4.898-.696L7.538.792c.197-.39.73-.39.927 0l2.184 4.327 4.898.696c.441.062.612.636.283.95l-3.523 3.356.83 4.73c.078.443-.36.79-.746.592L8 13.187l-4.389 2.256z\">\n\t<\/path>\n<\/svg>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Running time: 94 minutes. Not yet rated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m no modern art critic, but this ghastly movie sure belongs in the morgue.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Cathy Yan of \u201cBirds of Prey,\u201d \u201cThe Gallerist,\u201d which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is yet another stale art-world satire with nothing to say except that collectors are pretentious nuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ya think?<\/p>\n<p>It checks all the usual boxes: affected voices, word-salad descriptions of paintings, rich snobs mingling to see and be seen, tired Bansky jokes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If only the script could shred itself.<\/p>\n<p>None of Yan\u2019s movie is funny aside from its half-way decent inciting incident. A noxious influencer named Dalton (Zach Galifianakis) comes for a private tour of the Miami gallery of Polina Polinski (Portman), a deep-pocketed divorcee, during Art Basel. He slips on a puddle and gets impaled by a sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of calling the police, though, Polina decides to make lemonade out of fatality and asks, \u201cWhat if we keep him?\u201d. She pretends the body is part of the work by Stella Burgess (Da\u2019Vine Joy Randolph) \u2014 called \u201cThe Emasculator\u201d \u2014 and that it is not flesh, but silicone. Word spreads and picture-snapping spectators mob the place.<\/p>\n<p>In short: Everyone\u2019s a moron.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega star in \u201cThe Gallerist.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Sundance Institute.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat body meets the moment,\u201d snooty Polina says in defense of her desperate act to her manic assistant Kiki.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing the spooked employee, who knows the ugly truth about the piece, Jenna Ortega tries to prove she\u2019s more than that expressionless viral \u201cWednesday\u201d dance by behaving like a crackhead air-traffic controller. Even considering her character is concealing an accidental death, the volume and size of the performance are way over the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are high for Polina \u2014 and not just the risk of imprisonment. She used her ex\u2019s money to refashion an old Jiffy Lube into a gallery to make a name for herself, and the white-hot cadaver is the closest she\u2019s come to success so far. Though, to call her morally complex would give the script too much credit. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jenna Ortega, Natalie Portman and Charli xcx attend Sundance. <span class=\"credit\">MediaPunch \/ BACKGRID<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Portman\u2019s very weird in this \u2014 unappealing so. With a cropped blonde hairdo and \u201cMad Men\u201d dress, she does a downer spin on Moira Rose from \u201cSchitt\u2019s Creek,\u201d speaking in a breathy whisper and floating around with a furrowed brow as if she\u2019s on painkillers. <\/p>\n<p>Sedated-seeming though Portman is, her Polina is intense amid the haze, not unlike her Jackie O or her \u201cBlack Swan\u201d ballerina. Only \u201cBlack Swan\u201d had more laughs than \u201cThe Gallerist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polina, Kiki, Stella and Kiki\u2019s famous curator aunt Marianne (Catherine Zeta-Jones, who might as well have been green-screened in), realize they\u2019ve gotta ditch the dead guy. Somebody will catch on, or he\u2019ll decompose. So the quartet hatch a preposterous plan involving an auction and Polina\u2019s boring ex (Sterling K. Brown), the \u201ccanned tuna king of Orlando,\u201d to get deceased Dalton out of there.<\/p>\n<p>For those keeping score at home, that\u2019s three Oscar winners in this humorless mess.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jenna Ortega plays Kiki, Polina\u2019s assistant. <span class=\"credit\">Chelsea Lauren\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The entire film is brow-raising. Granted, ludicrous things happen in comedies all the time. But Yan\u2019s bright, candy-colored world, which becomes tiresome to look at, and her flat caricatures make believing the plot a stretch. If it were actually funny, that would be less of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Yet during the many lulls, you find yourself poking holes in their halfwitted scheme. Doesn\u2019t he body have an odor? What about DNA? Other businesses\u2019 security cameras? Dalton\u2019s iPhone GPS? It\u2019s not a good time watching the quartet work things out, since their ideas are so lazy. Danny Ocean is a Rhodes Scholar next to these bozos.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stella remarks on their situation \u2014 and ours \u2014 remarkably well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy put up with all this then? You could just leave.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In my row of seats, many did just that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARK CITY, Utah \u2014 An annoying new comedy starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega asks whether a corpse is art or not. movie review THE GALLERIST Running time: 94 minutes. Not yet rated. I\u2019m no modern art critic, but this ghastly movie sure belongs in the morgue. 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