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'Source Code': Duncan Jones' 'Moon' Follow-up Reveals His Inner Romantic Optimistnew
Jones has wisely gone in the opposite direction of Moon with Source Code -- while it is very much rooted in science fiction, is a willfully optimistic, very nearly sentimental picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
04-06-2011 |
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Hurried 'Jane Eyre' Adaptation Still Shinesnew
Charlotte Bronte's 19th-century masterpiece, Jane Eyre, has already been filmed nearly 20 times for screens big and small, so what more can possibly be said about this well-worn gothic romance? Not much, apparently, but at least director Cary Fukunaga's version is superfluously good -- an elegant, classicist picture of quality with just enough sinister gloom darkening its romantic edges.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
04-06-2011 |
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And When I'm Sad, I Slidenew
A marriage slips away in a heartbreaking tale of lost passion.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
02-03-2011 |
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And I Would Walk 4,000 Milesnew
Possibly true tale of hardship celebrates the human spirit.
Orlando Weekly |
William Goss |
01-21-2011 |
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Good Griefnew
Nicole Kidman beautifies tragedy in this tender, picturesque drama.
Orlando Weekly |
William Goss |
01-13-2011 |
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Is it Too Early to Call for a Remake of 'The Time Traveler's Wife'?new
Wife is the kind of film that inspires discussion, one that's ripe with possibility and poignant symbolism, but that's a credit to Audrey Niffenegger's tale, not the film. Everything that director Robert Schwentke and screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin bring to the table is a by-the-numbers detriment.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-13-2009 |
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The Smart, Timely 'District 9' Livens a Dull Summer Movie Seasonnew
The standard action plot demotes District 9 from a potential game-changer to simply a very good film. But considering the painful summer movie season we've endured thus far, you can't ask for much more than that.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-13-2009 |
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'Bliss': Beyond the Seanew
Turkish drama celebrates life without spiritual borders.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-06-2009 |
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'(500) Days of Summer' Inspires the Inner Crotchety Old Mannew
The makers of the parenthetically titled movie at hand would do well to set aside the pop-culture bells and whistles that choke their film and focus on the task of engrossing an audience in a love story between two intelligent people in their late 20s.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-30-2009 |
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Tedious Exposition Slows Michael Bay and His Toys in the 'Transformers' Sequelnew
Everything is bigger, bolder and badder in Revenge of the Fallen, and if it weren't for the endless, clumsily delivered exposition, the film would work like gangbusters as the ultimate garish escapism.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Cheri' Works as a Wax Museum of Genresnew
It takes a prim-and-properness that few Americans can fathom to make an R-rated film about a hooker and her lover and not display heaps of sweat-covered skin, but that's the headspace that master Stephen Frears inhabits in Cheri.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Away We Go' Is Chicken Soup for the Hipster Soulnew
Away We Go is an unequivocal triumph for Sam Mendes, above all else because the honest moment he uncovers amidst this series of vignettes packs a wallop.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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The Last Meatball: The Extinction of Harold Ramisnew
Ramis went missing several years ago after back-to-back flops and now, thanks to his arguable heir, Judd Apatow, Ramis returns. The problem is that he's awakened in a future much different than the time he knew.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-19-2009 |
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'Shall We Kiss?' is a Wonderful, Sexy Romance from Francenew
Director Emmanuel Mouret achieves the kind of total submission to a filmmaker that's usually reserved for edge-of-your-seat thrillers and, in a way, that's what he has made: an expertly suspenseful romance.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-19-2009 |
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Jessica Biel and Her Director Are Equally Uneasy with Cowardnew
The biggest deficit in Easy Virtue is Jessica Biel, whose clomping, smugly false grasp of Noel Coward's diction would likely have her banned from the grounds of any summer stock company worth its salt.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-11-2009 |
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