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...anything more than the typical suspense film, but it seems that’s what audiences are looking for most weekends. It provides the dark, sinister, provocative elements needed to keep thriller aficionados entertained, but does not attempt to do more. Even though this could be seen as the film??s downfall, it is refreshing and fun as a simple weekend movie...
...Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been released two months earlier, he could very well be garnering award attention. The film??s only crutch is its presentation of the hockey games, splattered onto the screen with so many close-ups and jump cuts as to make the games unintelligible...
...actual performance. Nevertheless, the Academy will likely see beyond the cosmetic alterations to reward Theron’s breakthrough work, which painstakingly recreates the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film??s core is Wuornos’ tumultuous relationship with flippant lover Selby Wall (Christina Ricci). Though Jenkins fails to offer a believable relationship between these two individuals and Ricci sits through an unnaturally amateurish performance, Monster is ultimately redeemed by Theron’s resonant performance...
...watch as Uma Thurman kills her mother in the family kitchen). City of God has no such hesitations. Yes, the film is attempting to convey the brutality of daily life in a destitute rural town run by battling drug lords. But at some point, someone, anyone, involved in the film??s production should have stepped back and proclaimed in outraged Portuguese, “Feh! We get it. Enough already!” Instead, the film??s writers, editors, and director included so much stylized violence that its physical and emotional consequences completely sail past...
...this year’s tightest race, victory in this category ultimately goes to Annabeth Marcus, the seemingly unimportant wife of Sean Penn’s ex-convict in Mystic River. Laura Linney gives a solid if peripheral performance all the way up to what seems to be the film??s conclusion. But then, in one of the strangest bedroom scenes ever put on film, Linney suddenly undergoes a character transformation so unexpected as to almost totally undermine the rest of the movie. The academy surely wasn’t thinking about this scene when it nominated Mystic...