Must See
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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Weird but not nearly weird enough to escape from being really boring and self-indulgent.
A movie that shows how cynicism and sentimentality can be two sides of the same coin
A patronizing movie about Britain’s greatest post-war prime minister which is only interested in her mental and physical decay and not at all in her achievements
All Hollywood agrees that anytime someone makes a movie about TV or the media culture it is ipso facto a serious picture. And a picture — like, for instance, Natural Born Killers — which hasn’t a serious bone in its body can be instantly transformed into a serious picture by the addition of a “satirical”…
Sofia Coppola has won all sorts of golden opinions for this movie, as has Bill Murray — but nothing happens in it!
It would take too long to catalogue all the excellences of Agnieszka Holland’s adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square, but chief among them must be the performances of the actors in the four principal roles. Albert Finney plays rich Dr. Sloper, Ben Chaplin plays the handsome bounder, Morris Townsend, who comes to court his plain…
