In his The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo review, David Denby says that Rooney Mara‘s performance as Lisbeth Salander is mesmerizing, and that she basically owns the film and that costar Daniel Craig is okay with that — he lets her carry the ball. Another interesting point in the review is that while David Fincher‘s Tattoo says that everything can be discovered if you drill deeply enough, Zodiac, Fincher’s masterpiece, says pretty much the opposite.
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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