Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should go for range and dive into a weird character--maybe even a villain. (Sacre bleu!) Gretchen Mol should have a heart-to-heart with Meryl Streep, and John Malkovich should just relax. In short, Rounders should be a transition piece for all these artists. Let us hope they move on to bigger and better things. Soman Chainani...
There is a perk, though, and that is that thecomputer allows the whole picture to be done in3-D. Animation has long been unparalleled in itsability to flesh out the imagined world, and makeit move. The shift from two dimensions to threemakes the fantasy more believable than everbefore. Possibly the most delightful aspect ofAntz is puzzling over whether bugs reallydo these things, or if one is confusing gradeschool Bio with popular insect mythology...
More than anything, the attempts at excitement in Urban Legend are frustratingly defeated for any thinking person. How does the lone serial killer move all the bodies to the same place without help and within the space of several frames? How much space is there in a car anyway to let you really swing an axe with any decent momentum behind...
...True Thing is such an emotionally complex film that it literally wears its audience down. In the hands of director Carl Franklin (One False Move, Devil in a Blue Dress), the movie achieves rich layers and dramatic tension solely because of character depth. Three separate stories--the connection between Kate and George, the evolving rapport of Kate and Ellen, the difficult relationship of Ellen and her father--weave together to create an endless array of emotional fireworks. Most impressively, Franklin's film transcends its simple narrative and makes the audience completely invest its emotions in the question of who exactly...
What's remarkable about Franklin's film is its refusal to move beyond the scope of its characters. One True Thing is a small, almost claustrophobic story - but its deep complexities make for a far more emotionally vast narrative than even the most grand-scale love story...