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...first time Bond and Lynd meet, they size each other up, but not with the same intense sexual innuendo as in previous 007 flicks. They study each other’s clothing and analyze the answers to their very personal questions. It’s one of the film??s best scenes and Green—who steamed up the screen in Bernardo Bertolucci’s provocative “The Dreamers”—enchants Craig and the audience with her performance.Martin Campbell, who first came to the franchise when he directed...
...retelling of a college career, but rather the story of a businessman who embarks on a journey to discover himself. Sure, it’s hackneyed, but director Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year” still manages to entertain. The film??s plot line is familiar, and holds very few twists. Included within is the traditional “boy meets girl, girl changes boy” formula along with the rather tired “city-boy leaves city, falls in love with country, understands error of former city-boy ways?...
...music itself, the story told in the film is blatantly fictitious and will likely offend the aficionado’s sense of history. The role of a twenty-something copyist, played by the lovely Diane Kruger (“Troy”), is a device created by the film??s writers to see into the last days of an increasingly reclusive Beethoven. In a typical Hollywood move, the copyist is—miracle of miracles!—also an aspiring composer. The vague plot of the movie follows the developing relationship between Anna and Beethoven, based?...
...workmanlike indie-comedy for a mainstream audience.With the success of low-scale Charlie Kaufman meta-films (“Adaptation” comes to mind throughout the movie), it was only a matter of time until someone tried to squeeze out a big-budget film like this. The film??s architects try too hard to latch onto an art-house fad that they don’t really understand, with results that feel forced. Periodically, for example, Harold’s wristwatch briefly becomes a character before disappearing again from the plot. This device does nothing to enhance...
...Some [black actors] were criticized for playing stereotypical violent roles as black men,” Cheek says. “But it’s probably a good film,” he hastened to add, separating the any given blaxploitation film??s artistic merit from its social ethics. Unfortunately, access to floor 2R is restricted to guests with an Institute escort...