Green Book (2018)

Green Book is a good movie thanks to the strength and charm of its leads, Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. To be clear, Mortensen plays the very stereotypically Italian lead though he's the less interesting character. I think Ali actually doesn't get enough screen time because he's so good. I thought there would be more piano. And more Green Book but it barely even features. But the movie is much more about the alleged friendship between Tony Lip and Don Shirley. It's a pretty conventional story. In fact, so conventional that we've seen it before in Driving Miss Daisy.