At least Colin Trevorrow and Greg Hurwitz’s film is an interesting failure.
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Quentin Tarantino’s thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Games people play
Michael Haneke’s messing with your head; here’s how NOT to play along.
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21 Grams
Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga follow up their masterful Amores perros with another complex drama of disparate characters whose lives are linked by fateful misfortune–not nearly as panoramic or rewarding as the earlier film, but just as intimate and deeply felt. Naomi Watts is excellent as a woman whose husband (Danny Huston) […]
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French Revelations
Producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and their regular screenwriter-adapter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala seem to have a special affinity for Americans in Paris, the subject of three of their five most recent films—Jefferson in Paris (1995), A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998), and now Le Divorce. The first of these is one of their worst […]