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James McAvoy
James McAvoy—
Wanted
,
Atonement
—2/23/08 & 11/28/07
All the actors stayed in one house together, with some of the key crew members and Joe, the director...I decided not to--partly because I'd been to drama school, and I couldn't be bothered with it...I've lived in a madhouse.
Bright Young Things (2004)
Easy come, easy go...has the right satirical snap, energetic pace, and likeable performances to stay consistently amusing.
Rory O'Shea Was Here (a.k.a. Inside I'm Dancing) (2005)
Differently abled characters are too seldom portrayed on screen [but] the overall impression of the film is rather mawkishly obvious.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Graham Greene it's not....Whitaker's striking work aside,
The Last King of Scotland
is insipid, obvious movieland history.
Starter for 10 (2007)
Becoming Jane (2007)
Atonement (2007)
In the story's nooks and crannies are ideas to savor...the human-condition horrors of unpassable distances of space, time, and reconciliation.
Penelope (2008)
Wanted (2008)
Delivers slam-bang action entertainment, and does it while putting a surprising twist on the archetypal heroic journey.
The Last Station (2009)
Winds up feeling strangely perfunctory. This is subject matter that should fascinate, rather than deliver an occasional droll observation.
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)
And thus the old joke has finally been fulfilled of someone pitching
Romeo and Juliet
to Hollywood and hearing in response, 'Couldn't they live at the end? I mean, it's kind of a downer.'
X-Men: First Class (2011)
A superb, stylish piece of modern mythology.
Hanna (2011)
A flashy but disposable exercise in style over substance...
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
What makes [it] more than just a thrilling science-fiction actioner is the past-present poignancy allowed by time travel and astral projection, indulging everyone's fantasy of telling a younger self what he or she needs to hear.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
For all its failings, including the crime of not being exhilarating,
X-Men: Apocalypse
remains a competent sci-fi actioner.
Atomic Blonde (2017)
Isn’t about anything more than the spy game and how to make it to the end of the board...Then, too, there is Theron, whose kind of un-performance in repose keeps breaking out into ferocious fighting that suggests a feral Jackie Chan.
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