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Seemingly intelligent high school student Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) has just killed an autistic boy for no clear reason. In Juvenile Hall, he has to come to terms with what he has done. Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple with the repercussions of this terrible act of violence. What does it mean for their community? Although many critics have mocked it as a now predictable execration of the darkness behind modern suburbia, in this time of school shootings and anti-depressants, this is certain to be interesting and intentionally...
Other weaknesses were mainly the fault of the script. The first act failed to be very interesting, since it’s mostly used to establish characters—the spacey blonde, the apologetic wimp, the alcoholic stage veteran—by harping on their idiosyncrasies, which meant that much of the act’s humor was repetitive and rooted in slapstick...
...smokes pot and poses nude for her son; Jim (played with understatement by Oliver Platt), April’s eternally tolerant father and the only family member to have drip of genuine expectations and hope for a pleasant Thanksgiving; the under-appreciated overachieving dream-daughter, Beth (Alison Pill); spacey Grandma Dottie (Alice Drummond); and April’s camera click-happy brother Timmy (John Gallagher...
...Inside,” prepares us for the occasional verbosity and chronic blandness that characterizes the rest of his songs and “Never Coming Home” sounds like a remix of “Desert Rose,” with the same poppy, spacey, made-for-Jaguar commercial effects. The sad truth of Sacred Love is that it has cemented Sting’s new place in the soccer mom’s five-disc minivan changer. —Michelle Chun
That emotional range also belongs to the band, who channel Allman (“Easy Morning Rebel”) and Ozzy (“Run Thru”) with powerful grace. Recorded in the same farmhouse that made previous albums spacious and spacey, the major label production stays true to the quartet’s down-home sound. There may be a moral here about how “selling out” isn’t so bad after all, but the real lesson is about country music—well, ’tain?...