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...Best-Actor Nominee for “Half Nelson,” as each tries to one up the other. Hopkins plays his role with his usual skill and control, delivering each line with just the right inflections and matching calm, pensive expressions. Perhaps typecast as an intellectual killer, he harks back to his portrayal of cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs.” But he also adds subtle layers of complexity to his character. Crawford is more than a cold murderer, and viewers sympathize with him at moments and laugh...
...shards of your broken dreams. I talk about parents who lose a child, and parents who can't have more children, and a lot of the ways in which life is frustrating. And I certainly wrote that out of my own anguish. I don't want to be typecast as the Rabbi whose son died. I would like to think that there's more insight into people's problems than that. This is a book written by a 70-year-old man looking back on what he did and did not achieve in his life. TIME: Your books, including this...
...Keira, in whatever state of clothed-ness she may be, actually is the shining element of this movie. Defying her typecast sweetheart role of “Bend it Like Beckham” or the forthcoming “Pride and Prejudice,” she shows her genuine ability to act and is completely believable as a woman who can, and would love to, hurt you. Yet no one has ever looked so hot screaming obscenities and flinging numchucks...
...screenwriting gods, a latent analytic mastery of poetry, but she remains the carefree and floozy younger sister; her mischievous glances towards Rose’s fiancé leave us skeptical of how much she has actually learned by film’s end. Diaz nonetheless has fun in her typecast role as the blonde bombshell, and we have fun with her as she exposes her grandmother’s friends to “Sex and the City” and bungles a dog-washing...
...been careful about not being typecast, haven...