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...puts a big red X on its calendar for both home contests against this school, it would be a mistake to call the Harvard-Cornell clash a single rivalry. One is based on history; the other is a new invention. One features prominently in Love Story; the other is somewhat covered by ESPN. And last Thursday, students had to choose which rivalry they wanted to see when it came to reserving tickets for either game...
Apart from Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Bradley Cooper, and Queen Latifah all deliver strong performances, especially considering the extraordinarily limited amount of screen time they have to work with. The rest of the A-list ensemble, however, are somewhat poorly chosen, seemingly cast in the movie only for name recognition...
...perfunctory to do justice to the ideas and places he is evoking. The nod to a different cultural context is shallow, but additionally becomes disturbing when Aciman uses metaphors reminiscent of the pain and trauma caused by World War II to describe the main character’s somewhat unconvincing anguish at Clara’s rejection. He morosely declares, “I’ll always hate you for this, for bringing me to the abyss and forcing me to stare down, the way they force a detainee to watch the brutal execution of his cellmate...
...It’s a beautiful, bittersweet story. In its simplicity, it’s more touching—a play about the dynamics between a somewhat overbearing but loving mother and her son and daughter, and their interaction with the appearance of the much-awaited gentleman caller,” director Megan E. O’Keefe ’11 says. “Their problems, when reduced, are just about meeting expectations and failing those expectations. And that is similar...
Aside from that somewhat unfair assumption, it’s also clear that the first-time director and writer tried a little too hard with his adaptation of a staple of classic literature. He throws in random voiceovers that attempt to be insightful, but instead prove to be more distracting than helpful. There are also frequent flashes of clips that come without warning and are at first hard to decipher—are they dream sequences, flashbacks, or glimpses of things to come...