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...slur and strangely sensual voice, he sounds pretty weak before hot production pumps up his sound. Furthermore, his insatiable need to flood the rap market with “G-G-G-G-Unit!” music clearly influenced his decision to weave the film soundtrack into the plot. Showing him writing these songs—which are, overall, pretty terrible—turns out to be a huge mistake. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” should chronicle the making of the eponymous album—50’s breakout opus?...
...flex his mental muscle in solving them. But Radcliffe is still a stiff actor, and only in the emotionally draining scene at the film’s conclusion do his acting lessons bear fruit. Screenwriter Steven Kloves, adapter of all four film versions, redeems himself for the gaping plot holes of “Prisoner of Azkaban” with an airtight “Goblet” script. With so many significant plot elements missing (Hermione’s humane S.P.E.W. campaign, house elves Dobby and Winky), one would think a two-and-a-half-hour version...
...powers would be best spent in winning the national spelling bee. As he refocuses the household on his daughter, his wife develops a severe anxiety disorder and his son begins a religious exploration of his own. Each member of the family seems to have an identity crisis and the plot partially hinges on whether the family can pull through as a whole. The movie’s awkward script incessantly repeats the negative father theme with its unnecessarily shrill dialogue. Despite forced lines and a one dimensional character, Gere’s portrait of a stolid philosopher reevaluating his ideology...
...bring her Fiji water. The film allows Silverman to highlight both her extemporaneous stand-up routines and her more scripted pieces—the most consistently humorous of which are her songs. “Jesus is Magic” is not the film for those expecting a cohesive plot, or any plot at all. The movie stumbles from jib to jab without any rationale, and although her politically incorrect caricatures are often entertaining, they are undercut by Silverman’s tendency to slide into sophomoric humor. One such example is the final scene, in which...
...mini-series starring (swoon) Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy, and the recent Bollywood comedy “Bride & Prejudice” had mined so much from the material. While director Joe Wright’s version, “Pride & 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?...