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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt—
Brick
—02/10/06
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'He looks around at the world and sees it as a corrupt, petty, no-good affair.'
Joseph Gordon-Levitt—
Don Jon
—9/17/2013
Even the best movies...are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being. And so to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
Treasure Planet (2002)
The awkward trappings of this Disney adventure mechanize and blunt the tale's humanity. It pops and squeaks and rumbles, but
Treasure Planet
lacks the strength to transport audiences.
Mysterious Skin (2005)
Araki embraces the mysteries of human sexuality with a refreshing lack of hysteria and a brace of empathy.
Brick (2006)
The actors play it with poker-faces, but the further we go into the noir territory of hard-boiled, fast-paced dialogue and dames wrapped in crimson and black, the more ticklish
Brick
gets.
Shadowboxer (2006)
A rubbernecker's movie....There's a new Zalman King in town, and his name is Lee Daniels.
The Lookout (2007)
One of the most enjoyable films of the year to date, Scott Frank's
The Lookout
has all the good points and none of the bad of a screenwriter-turned-director labor of love.
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
The playful Generation Y story
(500) Days of Summer
goes against the grain by wisely substituting delusion for deception. Boy meets girl. Boy thinks he understands girl. Boy oh boy.
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Inception (2010)
The simplest way to sum up the greatness of
Inception
is to identify it as a new classic of science-fiction cinema (and, for that matter, the heist genre).
50/50 (2011)
50/50
isn’t interested in defeatism, except as one inevitable way station of the film’s appealing emotional ramble.
That '70s Show: Season One (1998)
Though the jokes are strictly standard setup-punchline stuff, the cast brings a freshness to the material.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Nolans consider the issues of the day...explore the role of legendary heroes (from Robin Hood to Batman and Robin) in galvanizing the public, and labor mightily to ensure that how their Batman ends dovetails with 2005’s
Batman Begins
.
Lincoln (2012)
Day-Lewis...wears well the weariness of the office and Lincoln's puckish yet subdued sense of humor, scaling the man closer to life-size than Mount Rushmore monumental.
The Wind Rises (2013)
As much as it deeply understands the artistic mindset of a driven creator, it also acknowledges the darker implications of a genius' tunnel vision.
That '70s Show: The Complete Series (1998)
Depicts the teenage slacker ethic of avoiding responsibility whenever possible and clinging to youthful good times while they last. The show did the same, taking eight years (and 200 episodes) to depict [three].
Snowden (2016)
Born on the Fourth of July
for millennials...Stone effectively streamlines Snowden’s story for mass consumption, edification, and identification.
Pinocchio (2022)
There's an overabundance of unnecessary concessions to modern taste in this effects-driven, CGI-animated remake, but it moves along pretty nicely—and they haven't broken it.
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