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This Week's Verdict |
Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Dan In Real Life |
"But now I just think Hedges — who also, with Pierce Gardner, wrote the movie's script — wanted to get the thong thing over with early on, because Dan in Real Life is only partly a movie about parenting." |
Don't we all want get the thong thing over with early on?
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Kenneth Turan ,
LA Times |
Dan in Real Life |
"If what you're looking for in film is vampires running amok or maniacs slicing and dicing quivering flesh, you never have far to go these days. But if what you want is a star-driven sophisticated romantic comedy that is successfully aimed at actual adults, the wait can seem like forever. Until now. " |
And if you want something else entirely, you're out of luck, buddy.
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J. Hoberman,
The Village Voice |
Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains |
"Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most well-meaning filmmaker in Hollywood; Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize 'for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development,' is certainly the most well-meaning ex-President in recent American history." |
With due respect to Demme and Carter, isn't being the most well-meaning U.S. president, or most well-meaning Hollywood filmmaker kind of like being the world's tallest jockey?
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Armond White,
New York Press |
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead |
"Is the naked, doggy-style sex scene between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei that opens Before the Devil Knows You're Dead blunt and repellant because it reflects the personalities of the characters? Or is it just that director Sidney Lumet is incapable of sensuality and tenderness?" |
Before we jump to conclusions and accuse Lumet of emotional frigidity, maybe the scene is blunt and repellant because it features Philip Seymour Hoffman, naked, banging Marisa Tomei.
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Stephen Holden,
The New York Times |
Lagerfeld Confidential |
"Mr. Lagerfeld claims to be 'a complete improvisation.' 'I don't want to be real in other people's minds,' he declares. 'I want to be an apparition.'" |
Karl Lagerfeld: Conceptual artist.
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