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...SOSKIN: I’ve read so much Ebert that I could predict his star ratings in my sleep. Any film with one of the following elements—good characters, an intriguing plot, or a noble message—gets at least two and a half stars, regardless of its other deficiencies; any film with two of the elements gets at least three and a half stars, even if it’s short on the third element (usually plot). Hence, poor Roger spends his days showering praise on dragging, decently acted message movies like Monster and The Insider...
...genuinely young-at-heart, fluorescent glory in the end. Garner’s performance may lend itself to a Julia Roberts reference or two—both have the full-lipped, hearty laugh and smile perfectly complemented by a suitably charming on camera presence. Though the plot could have been written during a middle school sleepover, 13 is cute for cute’s sake—cuter than the recent teenage chick flick Win a Date With Tad Hamilton and a nice urban compliment to the farm-town setting of The Prince and Me. If nothing else, the pleasantly...
...kidnapping plot is incoherent. Somehow it involves a shadowy secret agency of corrupt cops and villainous baby’s mamas, but their interaction with the actual kidnapping is never clear. Pita’s mother has hysterics that belong in a Mystic River, not this profoundly reserved effort: she quickly becomes no more than annoying. Why is unfazeable do-gooder journalist Mariana (Rachel Ticotin) so well-connected, and why don’t some of the uber-powerful villains follow through on their threats against her? Why is Scott Free productions fixture Giancarlo Giannini so damn cool as Mariana?...
Mimicking the struggles of everyday life, Boym takes the reader down each thread of plot and recreates the grueling process of discovering history. “It’s a way of exploring the roads one cannot take in real life, but that continue to haunt us,” she says...
...Adams House Drama Society is putting on Travesties, a Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard. Set in 1917 Zurich, the witty comedy follows a fictive plot involving Irish novelist James Joyce and Russian revolutionary Lenin. Tickets $10 regular, $5 students, $4 Adams House residents. Through May 1. Adams House Pool Theatre...