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...these successes came in spite of Grumet-Morris’ weaknesses. Captain Noah Welch describes some of his classmate’s rookie efforts as “crazy, on-his-back, flipping-over-and-stopping-the-puck-with-the-back-of-his-head saves...
...transfer to the smaller format. Details were sharp, tonalities were subtle and the action was smooth. Seeing it in the original cinematic aspect ratio is also a treat, but the size of the screen means even less engagement with a movie than one gets through a television. In spite of a battery that lasts three to four hours per charge, the PSP seems designed with the idea that no one will use it for more than an hour at a time. For example, it lacks a stand for hands-free viewing...
Harvard is also unique because Harvard first-years can choose their roommates and blockmates from the entire class. In spite of the pain and stress the blocking system can cause, it still gives Harvard first-years the freedom of association that is denied to their Yale peers. Not everyone blocks with the people in their freshman dorms. The importance of the right to choose one’s own roommate cannot be underestimated...
...scenes around the dinner table, and between the dwindling number that decides to remain out of personal loyalty, in spite of the bleakness of the situation, are strangely domestic. There are moments in which the combination seems to suggest something like pathos...
...spite of Mondovino’s esoteric and reputedly snobbish subject matter, even an audience who can’t tell Chianti from Kool-Aid can follow this portrait of an ancient, often bizarre international subculture. Like its distant cousin in fiction, Oscar contender Sideways, the film holds up for its entire 135 minutes by tempering a little wine geekery with far more interesting (and frequently unflattering) character studies...