reviews

Damn, these people are nuts.

It’s not like the Indiana Jones movies were exactly deep and impenetrable: so why do we need *Indiana Jones for Dummies*?

It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever, a great rock philosopher once noted, and if you wanna walk that line, you gotta walk hard and walk strong and walk straight and walk, um, clever. Yeah, that’s it.

Oh, but this is a beautiful film about human ugliness — spinelessness, small-mindedness, selfishness, and shame — and the possibility of moving beyond it all to a new place of joy, one that’s all the more meaningful for being so hard won.

One of my fellow critics called ‘Juno’ ‘Knocked Up’ lite. Buzz on the Net wonders whether this is a chick flick, with all the accompanying baggage of inferiority and silly, frilly irrelevance that loaded phrase carries.

It’s the end of the world as we know it — again — but Hollywood’s emphasis is horrifically, hauntingly different for this movie outing.

It’s exhausting just watching the 80-something former president do his thing.