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Discerning aesthetes might make the pilgrimage to The Good Son for the sake of respected British author Ian McEwan's screenplay, prepared stoically to endure the vicissitudes of Macaulay Culkin, commercialized American cinema and Hollywood's uncomprimising compromisal of artistic integrity. They will be disappointed. Contrary to expectations, it's the director and actors who make the most of a lukewarm script...
...persuade the rest of the world that the adorable wee lad is actually evil incarnate? Mark (Elijah Wood) goes to stay with his aunt and uncle on the death of his mother. A few days of rougher-and-tumblier-than-expected play with his cousin Henry (Macaulay Culkin) convince him that he is skating on thin ice, at times literally. But to grownups, Henry appears so harmless, and Mark himself has been acting so unstable since his mother's death, that no one will listen to him. Will Mark wrench the scales from the world's eyes, or will Henry...
Furthermore, the over-ambitious dialogue places undigestible speeches in the mouths of our tiny tot protagonists. I'll buy a stunning transition from cute kid to devilspawn, but Macaulay Culkin saying "Don't fuck with me" is just a bit too much to swallow...
...another nasty, not entirely uncommon fantasy. What if a child's normal mischievousness -- a compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning for his recently deceased mother and eager...
TELEVISION Conan O'Brien brings a fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track...