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...there are rewards for the patient or masochistic viewer. If you get into the movie's unsteady rhythms, the experience can be an enthralling ordeal. That's because Swinton gives Julia, and Julia, all her power and coherence. It's like so much of Swinton's work: a huge star performance in an ornery little film. When she meets directors with grand or weird or disturbing ideas, she does make their dreams come true. We expect no less of the queen of the indies...
...LEGO accessories and facial expressions? There's a Gitmo prisoner strapped to a stretcher wearing a black hood - made out of LEGOs. There's a detainee getting waterboarded - by LEGO figurines. There's President Bush declaring "Missing Accomplished" - standing at a LEGO podium. "By using toys, I hope the viewer will linger longer over the image and think again about what is actually being depicted or described, in a visual language that is recognized by us all: LEGO," wrote Legofesto in an e-mail...
That said, The Mentalist works because it's such an elegant example of its kind; if it's comfort food, it's prime-grade meat loaf. Much credit goes to the sly scripts, overseen by Bruno Heller (HBO's Rome), which take the viewer to familiar places by clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...
...response, advertisements, television shows, and even the news are placing more and more emphasis on keeping the viewer entertained with short clips rather than informing them with long ones. The 30-second television commercial is all but extinct; we simply cannot focus for that long anymore. How many of us have spent hours flipping through the television, unable to settle on just one channel? Reared on a diet of constant entertainment, it is no wonder that some of us fail to find instant gratification in life and turn even more toward the virtual world...
...Dead in 1994. As a compromised cop in L.A. Confidential, a tobacco executive in The Insider, a wily negotiator with South American kidnappers in Proof of Lifeand so many more, Crowe has been able to erase his thuggish public persona the moment he steps on-screen and persuade the viewer that he is the complex character he happens to be playing...