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...item on the dollar menu with a ten-dollar bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo JV—cracks an ironic smile and asks his fellow treasure hunters, “Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?” Unbeknownst to the trusty helper Bartha, his query actually captures the essence of the burden placed on the spectator in seeing this half-assed movie. Who in fact...
...nine percent of women are natural blondes. Far more sport blonde hair, however—maybe that’s why people think of blondes as fake. If they’re faking their hair color, maybe they’re also faking that happy face to see you smile? (Dolly Parton once quipped that she’s not offended by “all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb. I’m also not blond.”) But even for those artificial blondes, should hair really...
...holiday season is a happy one. Students are freed from quotidian school obligations so that they might be happy (looming final examinations notwithstanding). Professionals take time away from work to spend time with their families. People tend to smile a little more, breathe a little more, and relax a little more. The Marlon Brando of our lives take a little time off and is replaced by Jimmy Stewart. Bells ring. Angels get their wings...
Each of the actors has little moments like this: the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes another sandbag, the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim into avenger, the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols compliments Roberts as "the CNN of actresses: on the close-up you actually see a crawl--noun by noun, adjective by adjective--of what she's thinking.") They keep Closer alive and lively, worth watching for clues even as we attend to the wit of Marber's dialogue. It's a film...
...very sexual without having any [explicit] sex in it." Plus a few bits that might make some future director's list of favorite sexy scenes: a long, steamy kiss between Law and Roberts; a lap dance that Portman performs for Owen. And as we watch, we see ourselves, and smile or squirm...