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...start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously after confronting serious issues.Sheen and Langella are supported in the film by Matthew Macfadyen as Frost’s straight-man producer John Birt, and by the comedic tag team of Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell, who play Frost’s academic “crack investigators” with relish. The only failure of the film here is Rebecca Hall (last seen...
...VOLUME THREE In this dark, tense, terrifically grownup British spy series, the wiliest enemies are often on the same side as the good guys. As the third season opens, British agent Tom Quinn (the steely Matthew Macfadyen) has been set up in the assassination of the head of the British military, allowing rivals in the government to launch a political takeover of the MI-5 security service. In many ways, it resembles 24--the subterfuge, the personal entanglements, the willingness to kill major characters--but MI-5 is less pyrotechnic and more cerebral. The good guys harbor doubts and make...
...Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than an ampersand, the newest adaptation is a luxurious visit to Austen’s always welcoming world. The timeless love story of clever and headstrong Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley) and brooding Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen) is set against the contrasting rigidity of pre-Victorian England’s deeply ingrained social conventions. Elizabeth is one of five Bennett sisters, including the beautiful, eldest sister Jane (Rosamund Pike, “Die Another Day”) and the flirtatious, youngest Kitty (Jena Malone). The five daughters...
...lying, as if in a coffin, along a railway track: "One day in a town at the end of the world, the tide went out and never returned." But as we get to know the soon-to-disappear Celia (Emily Barclay), whose relationship with a returned war photographer (Matthew Macfadyen) the movie charts, the film's biggest surprise is how far it strays from the book. Neither Celia's poem, the lunar landscape of Central Otago, or indeed the war photographer exists in the novel. For lovers of Gee's taut prose (they include New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark...
...Cusack is effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine sadness. Less successful are Vanessa Redgrave, who's garishly over the top, and Susan Sarandon, who acts mostly with her eyebrows and strained Italian accent. As Welles, MacFadyen is boorish and obnoxious, and Robbins has already been chastised by some for so pervasively emphasizing the famous director's hamfisted side...