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Bright, baffled Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to save the world, which, a 6-ft. rabbit informs him, will end in 28 days. Writer-director Richard Kelly populates his suburban Middlesex with nearly as many strange creatures and daunting tasks as Tolkien did his Middle-earth. With an extra 20 minutes and a probing chat track with Kelly and fellow director Kevin Smith, this beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry...
...bother to ask. The movie is not going to tell. It will just sail along serenely, trusting in its unfailing good nature to ease us into an eager suspension of disbelief. And you know what? It works. Writer-director Paul Weitz (who with his brother Paul directed the equally agreeable About a Boy) is a clever guy, with an ability to bring his characters to the edge of rotten behavior and then let their better natures rescue them...
James L. Brooks, executive producer of “The Simpsons” who also moonlights as an Oscar-winning writer-director, could not have chosen a more cliché plot line for his latest film, Spanglish: a vivacious, non-English speaking Latina maid falls in love with her rich, white boss while her child is slowly assimilated against her wishes. But Spanglish was crafted by the hands of a master and the potentially nauseous subject matter is handled with grace and aplomb...
...they have earned. Everything changes when Bob receives a communiqué calling for Mr. Incredible’s help in a top-secret mission on a mysterious island. The mission eventually pulls the entire Incredibles family into a battle to save the world from their nemesis, Syndrome (Jason Lee). Writer-director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Simpsons), who serves triple duty as the voice of the temperamental superhero fashion designer Edna Mode, has created a film that skillfully blends the excitement of a superhero movie with a carefully-measured dose of family film sensitivity...
...Writer-director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor seemed on a winning streak with Election and About Schmidt: both were inventive and quirky, two qualities their newest collaboration, Sideways, unfortunately lacks. The film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles’ mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid...