It’s generally understood that Ralph Fiennes‘ The Invisible Woman (Sony Classics, 12.25) is the story of a secret affair between Charles Dickens (Fiennes) and Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones). I shouldn’t comment as I wasn’t able to see more than 45 minutes worth in Toronto, but it has the mood and the tone of a properly constrained Victorian period piece. And there’s no denying that Fiennes’ voice is a beautiful instrument. One look at the fat woman playing Dickens’ wife and your heart goes out.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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