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Across the Universe (2007) [PG-13]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.50
Review-lite: Worthy of being declared a National Treasure, director Julie Taymor transforms 33 Beatles song into a incredible new musical motion picture experience truly unlike anything you've ever seen. Fan of the Beatles or not, never before have the lyrics of the songs of one group been used in this way to assemble a cinematic musical exploration of a decade in American history. Visually stunning, the film captures all of human emotions transcending its medium and evolving in a revolutionary way into something powerfully uplifting. While it does fail to truly envelope the horror of the Vietnam war and the long-term damage it to the American psyche, in every other way the film scores nearly perfectly and stands to make bona fide stars out of the entire cast especially Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, and Jim Sturgess. (click for full details and complete review)
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Assassination of Jesse James (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.25
Review-lite: Casey Affleck stands out as a giant among men as he delivers the performance of his career, maybe his lifetime, as the 30-year old plays the 19-year old, Robert Ford, infamous in his own right for executing in cold blood the outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt). The story begins near the end of Jesse's wild ride as a vigilante outlaw justified in his own mind. As he grows in his paranoia that he will be turned in by his own men for the sizeable bounty on his head, James meanders in his trust in the young wannabe Ford. Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film is long and introspective in its way with both Affleck and Pitt at the top of their acting game. Lack of studio support will be the film's downfall on top of the reality that USAers typically don't want to see a film about a perceived coward. (click for full details and complete review)
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Blind Dating (2007) [PG-13]
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Hilarious romantic comedy stars Chris Pine as a handsome and popular blind man who doesn't realize how crazy women are for him. While his sexy therapist (Jane Seymour) hits on him, his brother (Eddie Kaye Thomas) sets him up on a string of disastrous dates. But when he falls for a young Indian woman who is arranged to be married to someone else, Pine sets out to win her heart. With Anjali Jay, Jennifer Alden. 99 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; behind-the-scenes footage; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) [PG-13]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $12.75
Review-lite: Believe it or not, it is not Queen Elizabeth who turns out to be the most interesting nor Kate Blanchette's performance the most delicious in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age, instead, really it is Clive Owen's Sir Walter Raleigh who steals all the film's thunder. His cavalier devotion to the Queen, while mostly dismissed by her, stands out most in the film. Indeed, a film focused on his swashbuckling life, 'discovery' and claim of the new colony of Virginia so named for his Virgin Queen, and his subsequent entrapment in a gilded cage when Elizabeth declares him Captain of her personal guard, would have been far, far better. Elizabeth: The Golden Age possesses merits, but as far as being a great film that captivates and illustrates the magnificent splendor of her leadership, it misdirects too much attention on all the wrong elements of this period in her history. (click for full details and complete review)
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Feast of Love (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $11.50
Review-lite: Feast of Love, directed by Robert Benton, features various couples falling in and out of love in a small town in Oregon. Coffee shop owner, Bradley (Greg Kinnear) serves as the focus of the story as other characters move in and out of his life as narrated by best friend, Harry (Morgan Freeman) who adds insight as the story plods along. Sadly, along the way, the director and screenwriter made a catastrophic miscalculation in figuring they'd done enough to make any of the characters, with the possible exception of the young lovebirds, Oscar (Toby Hemingway) and Chloe (Alexa Davalos), interesting enough for anyone to care what happens to them. With the focus so heavily on Bradley, who seriously has to be one of the most uninteresting protagonists in the modern age of film, well, the film pretty much wallows in self-pity most of the time. (click for full details and complete review)
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Fierce People (2007) [R]
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Fifteen-year-old Finn's (Anton Yelchin) plans to spend the summer with his archeologist father take a fateful detour when his mother (Diane Lane) must use her connection to a billionaire (Donald Sutherland) to get him out of legal trouble. Summoned to their savior's New Jersey estate, mother and son enter a rarefied world where privilege proves both seductive and sinful. Darkly witty drama co-stars Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart. 107 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: Spanish; audio commentary; deleted scenes; featurette.
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $09.00
Review-lite: Chris Rock fans be forewarned, this IS your father's Chris Rock. Yep, this is Chris Rock trying to decide if he can still be Chris Rock after all these years. His latest film, I Think I Love My Wife, should have been called "I Don't Think I Should Make This Movie". First off, the film is rather dull. Second, despite valiant performances from co-stars Gina Torres who plays his devoted wife and Kerry Washington who plays Nikki Tru his new love interest (or is she), Chris Rock is not able to be the real Chris Rock. It's not clear who he is or if even he knows. Poor Steve Buscemi is just a fish out of water entirely miscast in the film. If you direct, write, and star in a film, there's got to be a way to know, somehow, if the project just isn't working so well, doesn't there? (click for full details and complete review)
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The Brave One (2007) [R]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $13.00
Review-lite: Giving one of her most interesting and gutsy performances since 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster is stunning here in Neil Jordan's The Brave One as she grows from radio artist to vigilante killer when her fiancée is killed by thugs in Central Park. Terrence Howard, too, shines brightly as the police detective that may or may not have figured out that she is behind a string of murders that have bedazzled New York City with the spectacle of someone taking the law into his or her own hands and ridding the city of some of the worst criminals ever. Unfortunately, the film fails to deliver on the other half, the complications both emotionally and legally for a person who manages to convince herself that the ends justify the means. (click for full details and complete review)
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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) [PG-13]-- W.I.P. Scale™ Rating: $14.50
Review-lite: An absolute surefire hit, The Jane Austen Book Club written and directed by Robin Swicord from Karen Joy Fowler's novel, is simply sensational. With terrific leading performances by Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, and Hugh Dancy, the film weaves and entangles the lives of the principle characters with the themes of the Jane Austen novels each has been assigned to read and present to the club members. Wonderfully humorous, the story, with neither pride nor prejudice, evokes all we need for proper sense and sensibility as the characters navigate the complex needs of their hearts and ours. Who better to guide than the grand dame of women's literature, the world's best student and author of love long lost and then reclaimed, Ms Jane Austen? (click for full details and complete review)
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