Magic Castle isn’t a place you really want to find yourself, because if you are there, life dealt you a shitty hand somewhere along the way.
But Sean Baker and his cast make it such a compelling locale, I wasn’t ready to leave when the picture reached its abrupt end.
There are very few plot-driving beats in this story, but ample scenes that tell us all that we need to know about Bobby, Halley, Moonee and the people in their orbit at Magic Castle.
I’m not used to Sean Baker’s unstructured style of storytelling, so it took me a while to adjust to the fact that his character development occurs just by letting his scenes play out at their own pace.