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What is going on with Ben Affleck’s hair in this movie?Seriously.It looks like…I don’t even know what it looks like.It looks, literally, like industrial carpeting.The hell?…Anyway.If you’re going to set a movie in the early …
The only thing in this movie you might have seen a jillion times before is that it’s about sports-betting pickers. Even Piven is wasted in it, it’s such a trite-fest; the speechifying and montages are …
I could point to about a dozen fairly consequential plotholes, loose ends, and issues with the set-up, but I liked it a lot anyway. I almost prefer that the movie left so much for us …
The crap I have to watch for work sometimes… Better than I expected, but still not very good, although in the filmmakers’ defense it is, I think, enormously hard to put this story on film …
Meh. I wanted to like it; Campbell and Pitoc are quite charming in it, although they don’t have a ton of chemistry. But while it got certain things perfectly right (the teeny apartments, the rando …
It’s long, it’s dull, Julie Andrews and Paul Newman have about as much chemistry as two stale cookies — and the score is completely nutty, too, with a bunch of chirpy oboes and blatty horns …
It’s not a particularly well-regarded Hitchcock; the charge usually leveled at the movie is that it’s too slow, but with the exception of the flower-cart scene, I disagree. It’s more that the plot is a …
One of those movies that’s sort of a trifle, but that works completely on that level. Plus, after you’ve seen Diner umptillion times, it’s gratifying to see the tertiary characters popping up again (aw, Bagel) …
Excellent movie, which I’d never seen before. So many scenes where you want to hit pause just to admire the shot. Orson Welles’s acting is a little off in spots, but it’s still really good …
I couldn’t get through it; I gave up an hour in. I really really liked Days of Heaven, and the meditative, fragmented way he puts the story together is very similar, but I just could …