Adventureland
Adventureland finds much of its comedy in its often brutal honesty.
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Adventureland finds much of its comedy in its often brutal honesty.
Blindness – despite its director, despite its pedigree as a respected piece of modern literature, despite its stellar cast – is a bitter disappointment.
Occasionally interesting, always beautiful and regularly tedious, the film attempts to capture a time and a feeling yet it ultimately fails to provide the depth needed to make it wholly successful.
Even in pointing out the falseness of talking down to people for the sake of coming across as intelligent, Smart People does just that.
The reason why Gone Baby Gone works so well is the attention to which Boston is portrayed. The urban neighbourhood is like another character in an already strong cast, one that has needs and desires just like everyone else.