Movie Reviews: The Impossible, Texas Chainsaw 3-D, Les Miserables and Django Unchained
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- By Brian Feldt
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- January 5, 2013
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The Impossible
- Run Time: 114min.
- Starring: Ewan McGregor , Naomi Watts
- Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
"The Impossible is one of the most emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory -- and certainly one of the most frightening in its epic re-creation of the catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami." The Hollywood Reporter. Full Review.
"Put a staggering accomplishment called The Impossible, from Spanish director J. A. Bayona, at the top of the season's must-see list." Rex Reed of New York Observer. Full Review.
"Here is a searing film of human tragedy." Roger Ebert from of Chicago Sun-Times. Full Review.
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Django Unchained
- Run Time: 165min.
- Starring: Jamie Foxx , Leonardo DiCaprio ,Christoph Waltz , Samuel L. Jackson , Gerald McRaney
- Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
"A sharp shock of a film in an Awards season very full of movies so noble they become immobile. It's wildly unlikely to get much love from the Academy, and that's fine-bluntly, it's too good for them. With its bloody stew of history and hysteria, action taken from movies and atrocities taken from fact, Django isn't just a movie only America could make-it's also a movie only America needs to." Boxoffice Magazine. Full Review.
"Exactly what you might expect from the fearless, controversial director of "Pulp Fiction" - it's overlong, raunchy, shocking, grim, exaggerated, self-indulgently over-the-top and so politically incorrect it demands a new definition of the term. It is also bold, original, mesmerizing, stylish and one hell of a piece of entertainment." Rex Reed of New York Observer. Full Review.
"Django Unchained also has the pure, almost meaningless excitement which I found sorely lacking in Tarantino's previous film, Inglourious Basterds, with its misfiring spaghetti-Nazi trope and boring plot. I can only say Django delivers, wholesale, that particular narcotic and delirious pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to confect in the cinema, something to do with the manipulation of surfaces. It's as unwholesome, deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian. Full Review.
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Les Miserables
- Run Time: 157min.
- Starring: Hugh Jackman , Russell Crowe , Anne Hathaway , Helena Bonham Carter , Sacha Baron Cohen
- Director(s): Tom Hooper
"Stirring and striking, Hooper's epic musical won't be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen's cinematography is stunning and Hathaway's Oscar is guaranteed." Neil Smith of Total Film. Full Review.
"Russell Crowe's pained vocal stylings (they sound more like barks) as relentless Inspector Javert can be forgiven after hearing Hugh Jackman's old-pro fluidity in the central role of Jean Valjean, hiding a criminal past." Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out New York. Full Review.
"Fortunately, this sprawling epic is well-anchored. There cannot be a better big-screen showman than Jackman." Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News. Full Review.
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Texas Chainsaw: 3-D
- Run Time: 92min.
- Starring: Alexandra Daddario , Scott Eastwood ,Tania Raymonde , Trey Songz , Keram Malicki-Sanchez
- Distributor: Lionsgate
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John Smith
10:08 am on Sunday, January 6, 2013
re: "the impossible"... incredible first third of the movie. director did a great jod cinematically. we watch this movie in a packed Plaza Frontenac theater on Saturday, and the audience was definately impacted by the wave scenes.
then the movie drifts into a boy with mommy issues, and a series of ridiculous "where's Waldo" scenes wherevthe family, torn apart and separated by the wave keep barely missing eachother over and over in different scenes.
Americans are depicted negatively. in one scenc thecdad gies back to the destroyed "orchid resort" where an American tourist says ahevjust wants to "get off this island"... her faher won't share his cell phone and says " hey, look around, everybodys got problems.". Nice.
the director milks rhe plot for all it's worth. I've never seen such gratuitous tear jerking dialog. this movie quickly droops off into the Lifetime Movie Network world after the first half and stayed there.