Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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Revolutionary Road
April (Kate Winslet), once an aspiring actress and Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) once an aspiring dreamer, marry and unwittingly fall into the American Dream. We come to understand they thought they'd be able to do it better; you know the whole 2.5 kids, nice home, nice neighbors, homemaking, safe job etc... That somehow the settling down thing would look different on them...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
As expected, the make-up and CGI are on the mark. Brad Pitt found a believable tone playing a wizened, childlike, young, old man. Then we are treated to the sexy, devoted-to-one-woman, Pitt that defines his off screen life, but so rarely is seen on screen, as he likes to remove all traces of sex appeal playing weird characters like Chad Feldheimer in Burn After Reading.
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Changeling
This is a heart wrenching story of a woman, Christine Collin's (Angelina Jolie) quest to find her missing son, who disappears while she's at work without a trace. The LAPD police Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan) shows little to no concern for Mrs Collin's plight, instead he's willing to force Collins to accept an impostor child as her missing son, in order for the police department to save face in the press. Donovan, so likable in the TBS action show "Burn Notice", is so despicably full of himself in this part, you just want to slap those bunny teeth of his out of his mouth!
