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Calling anything “indescribable” is like throwing down a gauntlet that Hollywood can’t help but pick up: of course real people’s real pain can be turned, yet again, into trite, glossy cinematic junk food. How could we possibly doubt this?
A lack of appreciation for what the museum truly means to so many people is part of why ‘Night at the Museum’ ultimately disappoints.
New quote from ‘Eragon’ added…
Forget everything you know about the joke that Rocky Balboa has become in the three decades since he made his screen debut, and just think back to that first film, to its raw power and surprising sensitivity and hard beauty.
The Force is strong with young Eragon, but he is not a dragonrider yet.
UPDATED AGAIN: Well, so. That was interesting. Apparently I am a “noted film critic,” which I would have dismissed as simple politenss on the part of the show’s host, except the other two film critics in my segment were from New York Magazine and Newsweek. That’s… wow. I’m honored — and stunned — to be … more…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the same old imperialist “Westerners go to exotic places where poor brown people live and die all the time in awful ways, but now It’s Important and It Matters cuz it’s happening to Westerners,” but give ‘Tsunami: The Aftermath’ a chance, will ya?
While this rather harrowing story of romance not so much star-crossed as heroin-addled ain’t exactly fun, there’s a lot of cinematic pleasure to be had in Heath Ledger’s thoroughly un-self-conscious performance…
I swear, homeless organizations could make a killing just standing around outside the multiplex when showings of Happyness let out and asking for donations to help people like Chris Gardner…
The first live-action adaptation of the story of Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the spider gracefully tiptoes around all the enormous potential for disaster and gets it all absolutely, perfectly, couldn’t-be-more-right right.
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