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...these oh-so Bridget moments are outnumbered by the formulaic structure of the narrative, to the point where we’re not sure whether this is Notting Hill, Love Actually, or just some hideous amalgam of all the other resolutely WASPy, sickly-sweet Richard Curtis creations: There’s the wacky car chase through central London to a Motown soundtrack. The even wackier minor characters that swear like sailors and smoke like particularly industrious chimneys. Bridget falling flat on her face, a lot. Further plundering of the Aretha Franklin catalog. And, of course, that stalwart...
There is something like ashy molasses in Ray Charles’ voice: dripping syrupy sweet with southern charm yet charged with gritty, unhewn candor, it resonates with a sense of immediacy and emotional clarity that is nothing short of divine. And yet somehow, even after seventeen tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques...
...Island ice tea. I can feel the grainy sugar slide from my scalp, down my sideburns, around my cheek, into my mouth. I’m tired, but I don’t go to sleep. I stand there, naked as the day I was born, laughing at the sweet taste of sugar...
...dime romance, she suffers severe attacks whenever a play is to be staged in her honor. Only toward the end, when Peter Pan is staged in her home, does the movie alchemize from the subpar into the nearly sublime by asserting that theatrical art, at its best, is a sweet affirmation of life and a bold defiance of death...
...It’s just a given that she fits in,” said former teammate and senior forward Kat Sweet...