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Having not seen Capote, I can’t really speak to the similarities, but I liked the first half of this very much; the second half seemed a little bit on-the-nose to me, like the movie didn’t …
What can I say that hasn’t been said. Yeah, the “message” is a little heavy-handed, but you could really make that complaint about any of the Pixar films; it never bothers me. And Dash is …
I’d heard great things, and it almost lived up to them. Wonderful cast, a rare likable performance from Claire Danes — it’s very good, but when it was over I had to wonder why, what …
I really liked it. The whole MPD thing is kind of a cheat, I think, and it’s clearly not earned, but 1) I didn’t see it coming at all, and 2) the lead-up is really …
I spent the entire movie cringing.It’s really really good, though, and an accurate depiction of a Jersey subculture without mocking it too much, which is probably a hard temptation to resist.All the acting is wonderful, …
It’s too slow and talky for my taste, too much telling, and it felt like certain characters had real promise but weren’t developed into three dimensions. The acting is good, although George C. Scott lacks …
DUDES THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD. I heard such good things about it that I thought sure it would be overrated, at least a little bit, but: it really isn’t. Terrence Howard is amazing. Nola …
Blech. I remember this being quite a well-regarded movie, and I don’t see why, honestly; it’s so treacly, and several of the main characters are off-putting, primarily by dint of their one-note acting. A lot …
It’s so so so bad, but the music is pretty good, and it’s not very long, and if you go with a group of friends and a few tallboys and heckle it, it’s a good …
Really fizzy and fun; it’s not exactly stark realism, but damn, newspaper reporting in the forties looked like a lot of fun. I don’t know about that hat on Rosalind Russell, though.