Word: swintons
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...searches for the mother of his son less out of a passion for knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton as the four women in Don's long-ago love life offer hope for a quartet of comic or romantic playlets leading to a satisfying emotional resolution...
...touching grace note, when Stone impulsively bows to kiss Tom's hand. The second episode also has its moments, as Conroy and her Babbitty husband (Christopher McDonald) leave Don more flummoxed than ever. But each meeting is increasingly shorter, with the third (Lange) perfuntory and the fourth (Swinton, looking great in a dark wig and a defiant rage) last only long enough for Don to get punched...
...that there will be a special savor to Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, written by Guillermo Arriaga, of Amores Perros and 21 Grams fame. Or that Broken Flowers, with Jim Jarmusch directing Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone and Tilda Swinton, will launch that indie icon into the movie mainstream. Woody Allen's last film, Melinda Melinda, was a little better than his recent dogs. Perhaps Match Point, with Scarlett Johansson, will signal a return to his old ... competence...
...Hamilton, the casting director who found McElhone in a school search for a boy to play Tilda Swinton's son in Young Adam and then recommended him for Dear Frankie, also prefers nonprofessionals. "When you're casting a kid, you want a kid to be a kid. It's nice for them to come onto the set wide-eyed and wondering what's going to happen next. You know they won't try to be anything other than what they...
Surrounded by real actors (Tilda Swinton at her most immaculately decadent as the angel Gabriel, pinwheeling Peter Stormare as Satan, Rachel Weisz as The Girl), Reeves holds his own, creating a force field around his watchful entropy. In his early years, he may have been only a nerd's idea of a hip guy. Now, at 40, he has achieved a freon-cool satori, which makes him the perfect, still center of a visually agitated, intellectually restless movie. --By Richard Corliss