Word: contrivedness
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America currently consumes about 7 billion bbl. of oil a year. When production in Persian Gulf fields was ramped up by 12 billion bbl. a year in the 1960s, global prices collapsed. That made it politically painless for the U.S. to ban almost all new drilling off the Florida and...
ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the...
Late in the film “Innocent Voices,” the 12-year-old main character waits on his knees to be executed by U.S.-trained government soldiers. Just before our young hero is shot, the country’s leftist guerillas attack and the boy is saved.Before...
“Crónicas” is so successful that its flaws seem hardly worth mentioning, but the sex scene between Bonilla and Marisa is particularly egregious. Their romance is completely contrived and unmotivated, the film does little to examine its aftermath or relate it thematically to the...
Of course President Bartlet on The West Wing is free to thus sully himself. Even on a show with a feminist premise, it seems, TV is not quite ready to treat powerful women as it treats powerful men. The show's creator, Rod Lurie, probably just meant to make Allen...