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Review |
Quote |
Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times |
Kurt Cobain: About a Son |
"Kurt Cobain: About a Son doesn't add much to the picture many of us carry around in our heads (and hearts) of its subject, and it certainly can't begin to explain why this wondrously talented, delicate creature decided to shoot himself in the head with a shotgun in early April 1994.
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Could this be a moment of genuine heart-warming affection on the part of a critic?
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Michael Clayton |
"It's a confident, well-tailored piece of filmmaking. It's also conscientious to the point of being wearying. [...] But the picture is so honorable, so sincere, that it trundles along dutifully and rather dully." |
Substitute "filmmaking" for "political statements" and you have the perfect description of George Clooney ever since Good Night and Good Luck.
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JArmond White,
New York Press |
Michael Clayton |
"George Clooney's new potboiler, Michael Clayton, is the latest example of Hollywood 's trendy nostalgia. Hipster filmmakers keep looking backwards to the 1970s, hoping to disguise how ill-equipped they are to deal with contemporary social issues." |
Hipster filmmakers in Armond White's book: David Fincher, Andrew Dominik, Tony Gilroy, but not Wes Anderson. Interesting.
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Camille Dodero,
The Village Voice |
Kurt Cobain: About A Son |
"If Cobain's death is the 9/11 of the modern-rock canon — an epochal tragedy that recklessly opportunistic minds have flattened into a sad, one-dimensional cartoon — then Gus Van Sant's tedious and arrogant Last Days is the World Trade Center of the posthumous Kurt industry: a fictionalized piece of shit by a big-name director." |
"9/11" is the new "fascist" — a word strewn about in the most unlikely contexts, sure to get people to either tune out completely, or throw an indignant hissy-fit.
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Kenneth Turan,
L.A. Times |
Michael Clayton |
"Expertly supporting Clooney are Tom Wilkinson as the organization's ace litigator, a man who is at once Clayton's close friend and biggest crisis. Then there's Tilda Swinton as the in-house attorney for an agrochemical giant called U/North that is involved in a multibillion-dollar class action suit, with Wilkinson's character working with her as the lead attorney." |
The best thing one can say about this review is that it unlike every other review it does not mention Tilda Swinton's fat suit.
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