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...Supporting Actress, I think most analysts recognize by now that Renee peaked too big, too early. I may be partially biased in that I thought she horribly misjudged her Cold Mountain role and delivered it with such intolerable garishness that by film??s end, I almost wished Jack White would mistake her for a Von Bondie. But even Miramax seems to admit that she’s lost her momentum, opening room for a victory by a member of your so-called “weak field.” That reference surely comes from someone...
...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...
...manages to do just the opposite, ultimately telling its audience that government is best left to cheats and liars. After all, it asks, why shouldn’t they be given power if they want it so badly? It’s a message that dovetails nicely with the film??s in-your-face easygoingness, but one that seems distastefully simpleminded near the start of an election year that is likely to be one of America’s most ugliest and most bitter. The formula has an obvious escapist appeal—one which may propel Romano...