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Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster—
The Beaver
—4/20/11
You know, life is tragic and comic. And it is excruciatingly painful and totally joyful. And you cannot embrace one without embracing the other.
Panic Room (2002)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
The Company (2003)
Flightplan (2005)
Inside Man (2006)
Lee is a bona fide cinematic genius, and his lively and inventive take on tired material proves that thriller corn needn't be mindless in its machinations.
The Brave One (2007)
Nim's Island (2008)
Overplayed: there are entirely too many beaming smiles and emotional flip-outs...the only reason to see this movie is Foster, whose overplaying somehow succeeds at charming where her costars fail.
The Beaver (2011)
Gibson again stares deeply into the abyss. The question is whether—after his public disgrace—anyone will want to go there with him.
Carnage (2011)
A slow disintegration of the thin veneer of social niceties, revealing the human animalism underneath. Like Reza's equally popular
Art
,
God of Carnage
isn't as deep as it would have you believe, but both plays are catnip for actors.
Elysium (2013)
There's a tough-mindedness there that's admirable, even if it's preaching to a mall-multiplex choir. But one wishes Blomkamp were less concerned with his
Halo
-style run-and-gunning and more interested in the subtler repercussions...
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