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Most actresses wait their whole career for a breakout role. And 24-year-old Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan knows it. Hers was Jenny, the lead character in the Lone Scherfig film An Education, which was adapted from the Lynn Barber memoir about a teenager who falls head over heels for a charming but flawed man. Mulligan's portrayal of a young woman who blooms with love only to wilt upon discovering its complexities has captured the hearts of critics and Oscar voters and has established her as one of the front runners going into the ceremony on March 7. TIME...
...directors are given free passes to avoid presenting any exposition, but here, director Breck Eisner (whose last wide-release was box-office bomb “Sahara”) treats the audience to a story with such plausibility and intelligence that it evokes a very realistic fear. The film is also co-written and produced by Romero, the godfather of zombie movies (“Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Day of the Dead”) who lends a guiding hand in reimagining...
...military in order to prevent a global pandemic. Dutten and his crew must not only avoid raging zombies but trigger-happy, flame-throwing, gas-masked soldiers. Olyphant is no newcomer to the big screen, but his acting ability and future prospects should not be questioned; his performance in the film is capped off by a memorable one-liner that is sure to have audiences cheering...
...film progresses, paranoia begins to influence the actions of the protagonists, as the fear of infection erodes their trust for one another, ultimately testing the strength of Dutten’s relationship with his best friend and his wife. The couple have little romantic chemistry, but Dutten and Clank’s unique working relationship provides a depth of personal character development rarely found in action movies, let alone zombie flicks. The mounting lack of trust between the characters progresses in epic fashion with the actors perfectly executing their unexpectedly complex roles...
Trust of the government, trust of friends and family, and trust of oneself are questioned as infection spreads and eventually manifests itself in both the physical and psychological states of the characters. Though the film is not without its plot twists and necessary in-your-face gore, it improves upon typical genre fare by creatively turning everyday situations into brutal nightmares; no viewer will ever, ever go through a carwash again without checking for crazies. One thing is for sure: “The Crazies” will please and scare both newcomers and the zombie-genre faithful...