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...Sure, the film explores the tension between Bush Junior and his “Poppy,” former President George H. W. Bush (James Cromwell). It examines Junior’s inferiority complex within his historic family and his fight to achieve credibility in the eyes of his parents. While the movie does not resolve these issues—to do so would be impossible—the real problem is its lack of substantial commentary on Bush’s daddy issues...
...only thing elevating this otherwise banal movie is Josh Brolin’s performance. He 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...
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Morrison is mooting the perversely hopeful possibility that slavery could have existed without racism or at least without racism as we know it. She lavishes some of her best writing in years on this pre-Revolutionary world, making it so luminous and complex that her characters are in danger of dissolving in it. A Mercy shows us America in the moment before race madness ruined it--it is a wounded land, but the wound has not yet turned septic...
...strange to praise a long-running show—six seasons over eight years—for knowing when to quit, but the fact is that David Chase and the rest of the “Sopranos” team realized the limits of their storyline. Shows driven by complex antihero protagonists thrive on anticipation, with loyal viewers tuning in each week to see when the main character’s internal conflict will finally reach its boiling point and lead to either his downfall or triumph. The problem is that once the peak of the character?...