Word: oscarization
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...Colombia Free at Last After eight years as a prisoner of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), former Colombian lawmaker Oscar Lizcano escaped from his captors, hiking for three days with his former farc guard through the jungle before reaching an army post. His escape is the latest setback for the rebel group, weakened by defections and a daring operation earlier this year that rescued 15 hostages, including politician Ingrid Betancourt...
...lifeblood of “Changeling” and more than makes up for underdeveloped characters and a structure that feels too self-aware. As Collins, Jolie plays a single mother in 1920s Los Angeles who one day returns home to find her son missing. In an exhilarating, Oscar-worthy performance, she moves us to tears, frustration, and terror. “Changeling” moves beyond the heart-rending concept of a mother’s love for her son and soon evolves into a fight for justice and a mysterious case of missing children. The intrigue is heightened...
...plenty of tragedy. It was because her story was attached to another that had enthralled America. Her sister Jennifer is not just famous; she is an emblem of pop-cultural redemption, an American Idol favorite who was eliminated in the finals but went on to greater triumph with an Oscar-winning role in the movie Dreamgirls. She had transcended her backstory and her roots as a reality star to become a real...
...screen with its intensity, is flat and lackluster. He seems to want his character to be stony and cold, but instead comes off as indifferent and detached. Perhaps De Niro has just made one too many movies; he seriously looks like he needs a break. Levinson, who won the Oscar for best director in 1988 for “Rain Man,” is not in top-notch form. In “What Just Happened?” the individual scenes creep along, especially during the first third of the movie as Levinson tries to establish Ben?...
...There's that much evil in the world? And Clint, thinking more about storytelling craft than about Oscar nominations, would say, Sure. But there are heroes too. And this time, the righteous gunslinger is a mom with no weapon but her inexhaustible love...