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...Woody AllenDreamWorks4 1/2 starsBy the looks of the trailer, “Match Point” seems like an intense romance/thriller hybrid, in the vein of “Fatal Attraction” or “Basic Instinct.” While the preview overplays the suspense, the taut and enthralling film is certainly a thrilling return to form for Woody Allen.After his 10 years of mediocrity and outright disappointment (with 1997’s “Deconstructing Harry” his only saving grace), in the phenomenal “Match Point,” in radically...
...half-brother, Robin Oakapple (Benjamin T. Morris ’09) “Why, you’re a fine, strapping, muscular young fellow—tall and strong as a to’-gall’n’-m’st—taut as a forestay—aye, and a barrow-knight to boot, if all had their rights!” he exclaims.There is a split-second of silence from the wings and the pit as all eyes swivel towards the “fine, strapping, muscular young fellow?...
PETER JACKSON'S KING KONG That's onehandsome monkey. Jackson, director of the new movie, was heavily involved with this taut, visceral tie-in, which has players creeping through the dino-infested jungles of Skull Island like the puny humans they are. And if you get bored with being small, you can, yes, play as the big guy himself...
...Then - snap! - the film becomes as taut as the rope Jarratt's kangaroo shooter uses to tow the tourists back to his isolated desert camp on the pretext of fixing their car. Around a campfire, he tells his captive audience: "Fair dinkum, I get around. You never know where I'll pop up." Almost an hour into Wolf Creek, the pressure has become almost unbearable. Which is exactly how first-time writer-director Greg Mclean wants it. When he learns that at a recent screening, five people left the theater around this point in the movie, and only four came...
Foster, channeling the role that she honed in “Silence of the Lambs,” radiates the taut energy and strained composure of a woman possessed, teetering capriciously on the brink of her own sanity. However, Foster occasionally overshoots the intensity of her performance, and the earnestness of her emoting occasionally borders on the hyper-frantic: she clenches her jaw a little too tightly and relies a bit too heavily on her staple big-eyes-welling-up-with-tears expressions...