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...thoughtful soundtrack adding color to beautifully serene, eerie shots of the protagonists barreling along forsaken southern roads in a faded blue convertible. These scenes provide the viewer with brief respites from the occasionally awkward tension of the film’s plot, which focuses on three loners who end up in the same car on a trip through Louisiana. Despite this awkwardness, the tension usually feels genuine, highlighting the honesty of the film’s love story...
...haughty? Do I bridle? A little, I suppose. A little,” reads one of Hermes’ interior monologues. Banville’s moves are well-considered—minds, after all, are noisy places—but it seems unlikely that his characters would really end all their thoughts with vigorous punctuation...
...downloaded legally and for free online, and includes some fantastic songs, including “Down & Out,” which samples Outkasts’s “Chonkyfire.” Kid Cudi’s first commercial album, “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” peaked at number four on the Billboard 200, and includes many of his most famous songs...
...premise of “She’s Out of My League” is an interesting one: a slight variation on the typical boy-meets-girl romantic comedy. But the plotline is a dud, selling out in the end for the formulaic happy ending everyone has seen before...
...Opera works well enough on its own, which actually might in the end be healthier than forcing a particular production vision beyond its natural limits. Marjorie Owens’s stately, poised Ariadne provides a well-measured foil to Gilmore’s sprightly, impish Zerbinetta. The opera is, in effect, a showcase for the two very different types of sopranos—dramatic and coloratura—and each takes full advantage of the opportunity to have fun. Owens’s sturdy, firmly rooted rendition of the aria “Es gibt ein Reich?...