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Aaron Johnson doesn't get to make much of an impression as Bennett (watch for his breakthrough role later this month in Kick-Ass) but if you could picture the girl you'd most like to turn up on your doorstep, announcing she's pregnant with your dead son's child, it would be Mulligan's Rose. Despite an absent father and a mother in rehab, Rose is poised, mature and smart enough to have won a full scholarship to Barnard. This movie lacks the energy and verve of An Education, the coming-of-age drama that catapulted the British...
...Last weekend was a breakthrough weekend for us,” Brown said. “We realized that scoring a lot of runs is a lot more fun and makes it easier on ourselves...
Despite Essex’s protests (“I don’t like to use the word ‘breakthrough,’” he says), the founder of Harvard’s facility in Botswana has overseen multiple major advances in the field, saving countless lives in the process...
Maybe Green Zone will be the breakthrough. Set in the first months of the U.S. occupation, the film has a churning urgency and a fierce verisimilitude, courtesy of director Paul Greengrass (United 93) and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker). Shot in Spain, Morocco and the U.K., the film straps you into a Baghdad state of mind. It's hell at 130, with dust and dread tarping the streets as if to smother anyone who'd attempt to escape. Murderous intent abounds on both the U.S. and Saddam-loyalist sides; life is cheap, and the stakes are high...
...Henderson] got on base,” Roberts said, “[and] she basically stole second, stole third, [and] stole home to get us on the board, which was really a breakthrough inning...