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Jude Law
Road to Perdition (2002)
The top-billed actors deliver: Hanks with his resonant reserve and Newman in conveying Rooney's failed attempt to live up to his self-image as the ultimate just and loving patriarch.
Cold Mountain (2003)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Though the exercise is ultimately empty,
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
must be seen to be disbelieved, so off you go.
Closer (2004)
Strangers becoming lovers, lovers becoming estranged: the paradox of oh-so-modern coupling keeps the home fires burning in Patrick Marber's astringent
Closer
.
Alfie (2004)
Alfie
smacks its dog with a rolled-up newspaper and then feels guilty about it. This one has star power and nothing else, y'know what I mean?
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
All the King's Men (2006)
Zaillian sells short the faceoff of shrewd old guard and scrappy proletariat by looking away just when the twain meet.
The Holiday (2006)
At one point Amanda remarks, 'In the world of love, cheating is not acceptable.' Also no longer acceptable: romantic comedies set in 'the world of love.'
Breaking and Entering (2006)
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
Sleuth (2007)
The script includes a verbal motif that reminds us of what binds the film's four central talents together: 'I want to show you something.'
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Endearingly packed to the rafters with ornate anachronistic artistry, Gilliam’s
Imaginarium
is a great place to window shop—and get lost for a spell.
Repo Men (2010)
Perfectly positioned to take advantage of the health care debate. Unfortunately, the satire doesn’t get any more complex than 'What if the mortgage crisis were over livers instead of houses?'
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Even if the cause and effect of the plot proves fairly impenetrable...one can't deny the film is frequently visually resplendent and imaginative...
Anna Karenina (2012)
Who's for 130 minutes of alienation?...We're able to intellectualize why we should care (those social strictures are crushing hearts!), but we're too distracted to be moved.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
This newfangled Arthur comes up short on grandeur or even old-fashioned matinee adventure, trading them in for cosmetic Game of Thrones grot.
Captain Marvel (2019)
To watch another obscure hero beget a franchise-building smash-hit movie means marveling at Marvel once again.
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