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...moments happen when the vulnerable Lily tries to fill the void her dead mother and unloving father left in her life. “The Secret Life of Bees” deserves the most applause for the fact that director Gina Prince-Bythewood doesn’t overuse the cast. With such recognizable singer-cum-actresses as Latifah, Hudson, and Keys, I nervously awaited group sing-a-longs (à la Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls”). Thankfully, the audience is never put through this torture. Nor does the movie rely too heavily on Fanning and Bettany...
...executive, Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, John Turturro as Willis’s agent, and Stanley Tucci as a writer trying to make a deal with Ben while seducing Ben’s ex-wife. Excluding De Niro, the rest of the star-studded cast is barely ever seen. Sean Penn is a major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes—which is just long enough for him to get shot, roll down a hill, and be shot again. De Niro’s acting, which normally dominates the screen with...
...truly inhabits Bush, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that he successfully depicts him over a span of 40 years. Playing the current president is undoubtedly intimidating, but Brolin makes a complex character out of a seemingly less-than-complicated man. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast falls into caricature. In particular, Thandie Newton’s Condoleezza Rice seems like an amateur “Saturday Night Live” impersonation...
...Cole, a young woman who is preparing to cast her very first vote-and who still won't disclose who it will be for - it was a rough introduction to modern campaign tactics. At the rally, Biden lauded her from the podium, and declared: "Our country cannot take four more years of this divisive politics." But for her part, Cole seemed like she would have been just as happy not to play her bit part in this election season. "It seems pretty nasty," she told me, and added: "I'm too young for all this...
...show lacks the suspense that made it so gripping, instead relying on a series of subplots. These include Dexter befriending a prosecutor whose brother he accidentally murdered. The prosecutor is played by Jimmy Smits, who after “The West Wing” is surely accustomed to being cast in dying shows. After escaping the police last season, Dexter seems more confident than ever in his murderous pursuits, and the show lacks most of the doubt and paranoia that made his character fascinating in the first place.So what is to be done about these failing antihero dramas? First...