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It isn’t quite as weighty as I expected; the movie part is actually fairly slight, relying as it does on old footage to fill in the plot. But it’s interesting, it moves well, and the …
It’s kind of funny, but also kind of tired — like, everyone onscreen literally seemed exhausted. It felt really low-energy compared to the first two and never really caught fire. Then again, we missed the …
I did not realize how completely both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave had gotten robbed at the Oscars until now. McKellen is just amazing, completely natural and transporting as a storyteller; the sequence where he …
Gustave told me the book is way better, so I scampered over to Half.com to order it, but…man. I have such a girl-crush on Angelina Jolie. I. LOVE. Her. The movie is pretty bad, and …
It isn’t a good movie, but it really had potential, and I have to say that the montage is the best part — although it’s not so much “best” as “most interesting,” and it gets …
Too tricksy, too in love with itself, and wow, do people not talk to each other like they do in the last half hour. I liked Portman a lot despite how aggressively quirky the character …
The first half is great, with all the cross-cutting and Kirk Douglas bad-assing his way through a carjacking (of young Dennis Franz!) and Amy Irving melting down at school (at the same table as young …
I like the director a great deal, and I like most of the actresses in this film so so much, too, but it…just didn’t work. It’s not a bad movie; it’s not an unenjoyable hour …
…It’s a football movie, what can you say. It’s like Chinese food — hard to do really well, hard to screw up really badly. I liked this one a lot; I like Peter Berg as …
It bored me. I think that when it was made, this kind of reasonably unsympathetic “anti-hero” was still new enough that Nicholson could put it over, but at this point, I just feel like I’ve …