'An Education': hard lessons for a too-smart schoolgirl
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
It's raining. She's getting drenched while waiting for the bus.
'The Blind Side:' downright inspiring
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
Sandra Bullock retrieves much of the career momen tum that The Proposal gave her and that All About Steve threatened to kill with The Blind Side, a surprisingly smart and moving drama based on the true story of a Memphis steel magnolia who doesn't truly bloom until she takes in a homeless teen and gives him a life.
'Twilight Saga: New Moon': More cultural benchmark than movie
By Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle
It feels like missing the point to talk about The Twilight Saga: New Moon as a movie. This is a pop culture phenomenon, some weird early-21st-century aberration, our equivalent of the hula hoop or dancing the Charleston on a biplane's wing. In the future, people will watch this second installment of The Twilight Saga and think, "What was that?" without realizing that this movie is not really a movie. It's an excuse for a lot of people to dream.
Star of 'An Education' has a big fan in film's screenwriter
By Steven Rea The Philadelphia Inquirer
If Carey Mulligan, the 24-year-old star of An Education, doesn't nab an Oscar nomination come January, Nick Hornby, for one, is going to be sorely shocked.
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- Film has style, needs substance
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- The Twilight Saga: New Moon'
- The Blind Side'
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- The Messenger'
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