Word: romanticized
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Ten years ago, Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg decided to forget everything they knew about filmmaking. Looking for a way to break what they considered bad habits behind the camera - like using music to set a mood or relying on clever editing to boost a weak scene...
Devoted Springsteen fans will sense immediately where Devils & Dust is headed, largely because the Boss has left his boot prints on this territory before, most famously on 1982's Nebraska and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those albums chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of...
Because, despite his traipsing about with Demi Moore to Kabbalah Temples, and pulling horrible, ill-conceived tricks on celebrities, Ashton Kutcher is a nerdy romantic. He hulks awkwardly. His facial expressions are spastic and he looks positively lumpish on screen. Amanda Peet looks embarrassed most of the time she is...
It is not predictability that makes “A Lot Like Love” one of the most insipid movies I have ever seen. All romantic comedies are essentially predictable. But this slovenly effort injects absolutely nothing into the genre. It is not clever. It is not funny. It...
The many issues whose surfaces Chloe scratches could be rendered poignant if not tragic, but Krinsky’s approach lacks enough perspective. Disordered eating, romantic failures, sexual insecurity, the high pressure and elitism of an Ivy environment—all these problems are real. The lines outside every Ivy...