Word: jakes
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...were also listening to the music, on our headphones and in our cars. We started at three in the morning, and we didn’t stop until we turned out the lights. And that’s pretty Great.—Reviewer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...Rendition” develops three interconnected storylines. Isabella (Reese Witherspoon) desperately searches for her husband Anwar (Omar Metwally), a Egyptian-born chemical engineer who has been kidnapped by the CIA under questionable pretenses; inexperienced CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) struggles to torture a man he believes is innocent; and, in a seemingly unrelated thread, the daughter of an Egyptian, CIA-sanctioned torturer rebels against her traditionalist father by falling in love with a radical student whose personal life remains a mystery...
...visuals were glorious: hipsters in ironic computer-animated T-shirts! Justice, at last. For four marvelous minutes, I was in the Paris I had imagined in America.Then “Buy You A Drank” played again and the reverie ended.—Staff writer Jake G. Cohen can be reached at jgcohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...lead in this substantially more serious film. A dead-on match for McCandless, his persona on screen is moody enough to capture the societal angst of his character. With a bristly face and a slightly ironic tone, Hirsch might have the angry post-grad down better than Jake Gyllenhaal. Sean Penn, directing his fifth feature film, likely used some of his celebrity muscle to pull in supporting cast members Vince Vaughn, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Jena Malone, and Catherine Keener. Like Hirsch, most of the actors play against type. For example, Hurt portrays an abusive husband, and funny...
...Jeff Terrell is gone, to be replaced by Bill Foran, a senior who played mostly wide receiver last season. First team All-Ivy wideout Brendan Circle is back, along with leading rusher R.C. Lagomarsino. The defense lost two first team All-Ivy cornerbacks to graduation, along with second-teamer Jake Marshall on the defensive line but returns seven starters in all. The Tigers had five field goals blocked last season; otherwise, kicker Connor Louden...