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...kind of excess that characterizes some of the “best” directors of all time—an excess that is ultimately valued and played up as proof of brilliance. It’s also occasionally credited with destroying the “New Hollywood?? of the 1970s, though many believe it was Star Wars, Don Simpson, and a lot of cocaine. The former point is more important here, especially as many film critics and historians have recently attempted to reevalute Heaven’s Gate as a great piece of art, a classification they...
...endless sequels, remakes, and concept plots hold our gazes and we have no idea why. Of course, there’s the familiarity of the experience—the specific experience of certain characters, genres, situations, etc.—that is so often referenced as the answer to Hollywood??s continued success in doing the same old crap...
Certainly, Hollywood??s general reliance on a pop music sensibility is a fantastic trend, and one that, for better or worse, made it impossible to go back to the “pure score” (Titanic’s “My Heart Will Go On” has shown us why). But Badly Drawn Boy’s soundtrack for About a Boy (a fitting title) was a masterful use of music both fitting the plot material, and fitting around...
...Hollywood??s biggest power players, Robbins has achieved success where few other performers have, moving back and forth between the realms of directing and acting. But for Robbins, success cannot be measured solely by awards and box-office numbers...
Decent acting is the one saving grace of this otherwise unimpressive feature. Dakota Fanning demonstrates her acting chops and shows once again why she is Hollywood??s top child actor. She impressively holds her own against an actor of De Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...