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Mystic River's story is told in Eastwood's straight-shootin' fashion, while 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga, jumps like an antsy first-grader from one plot strand to the next. Neither film, despite what you might have heard, is within shouting distance of a masterpiece. Gonzalez Inarritu's English-language debut lacks the zigzagging drive of his Mexican hit Amores Perros and taxes credulity with its pileup of fatal coincidences. Mystic River has a case of wandering accents (sometimes South Boston, sometimes West Hollywood) and plods toward its conclusion more like a tired cop than a cunning detective...
...Third-grader Lisa Delacey said that she has been perfecting her dance for two years in Jamnastics...
...really on his mind: “Don’t want to meet your daddy, just want you in my Caddy / don’t want to meet your mamma, just want to make you cumma.” How can André, hornier than a tenth-grader, still be so damn charming? The music is so unexpected, and works so perfectly, that we lose ourselves entirely. The misshapen 22-bar chorus goes down like a spoonful of sugar...
Grade inflation—reality or myth? I have no experience with this. I prefer to be an easy grader...
Even a first-grader can come up with useful ideas for moving the evening routine along. My daughter invented bath math, practicing her addition and subtraction while soaking in the tub. In the nightly scramble to get the lights out sooner, every little bit is a plus...