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Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood—
Mao's Last Dancer
,
Star Trek
,
Batman: Under the Red Hood
—08/13/10
I spent...three months doing ballet classes...Which is just an ass-kicking workout. And then I met a couple of dancers that had danced under him and interviewed them, and spent the evening sort of drinking wine and listening to their stories...
The Core (2003)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
I, Robot (2004)
Being Julia (2004)
Not the stodgy costume drama it may appear to be...To Bening's triumph, the audience can only love Julia, warts and all, by picture's end.
Racing Stripes (2005)
While no one will walk out quoting killer punchlines, the requisite fart jokes and pop cultural references are slightly zestier than usual.
Capote (w/ In Cold Blood) (2005)
Radiating serpentine self-absorption, Philip Seymour Hoffman embodies a youthful Truman Capote.
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
Eight Below (2006)
Marshall sort of gets away with murder by walking the line of pitiless Antarctic cold and family-film warmth.
Déjà vu (2006)
If you can surrender to the film's crazy convictions, it's a popcorn-munching wild ride worth taking.
Star Trek (2009)
It's this
Star Trek
's greatest stroke of genius to conceive of Kirk and Spock as two rebels looking for a cause...
Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
A fairly typical Hollywood bromantic comedy in that one suspects that the improvisatory chops of its likeable star duo made them real-time script doctors.
Batman: Under the Red Hood (V) (2010)
With its colorful, exciting action and well-defined emotional underpinnings,
Batman: Under the Red Hood
is the best yet in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.
Mao's Last Dancer (2010)
Like its defector hero,
Mao’s Last Dancer
is neither here nor there...determinedly dull, even in the flatly filmed ballet sequences.
Meek's Cutoff (2011)
An existential nightmare of maddening uncertainty, a notion only emphasized by Reichardt’s commitment to ambiguity.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Smart or...dumb? Yes, and...fun to hang around with for a couple of hours.
Truth (2015)
Though the [film]...cannot pretend to be free of its own leanings, Vanderbilt allows a reading of Mapes’ tragic errors amidst its melancholy diagnosing of TV-news’ slow, painful death march from the public trust into modern corporate product.
The Post (2017)
The heroic journalism depicted in
The
Post
could hardly be more timely, it’s true, but Spielberg’s take rarely achieves dramatic traction.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
In some ways,
Doctor Sleep
has to feel like a pop cultural footnote, but that's not fair to what's a ripping yarn in its own right.
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