Pursuit of Happyness, The
[See “Entry from August 4, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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Charming, funny, but also morally serious, this is about as good as American movie-making gets these days
An amusing fairy tale that sometimes flirts with over-seriousness
Down to Earth, Chris Rock’s remake (directed by Chris and Paul Weitz) of Heaven Can Wait (1978)—itself a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)—is a disappointment. Though there are some very funny things in it, its glib message about being oneself turns out to be a cover for being self-indulgent, in the style (I’m…
A moving portrayal of a little-known passage of recent history which even manages to make us forget why it was, until now, little known
Margarethe von Trotta’s moving story of a few brave German women who successfully defied the Nazis after their husbands were arrested gets a bit lost in the complications of the telling
A fascinating document for future scholars writing the history of the American celebrity culture
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