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Review |
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Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Mr. Bean's Holiday |
"If your idea of a fun night out is tittering 'Oho!' behind a gloved hand, then Mr. Bean's Holiday probably isn't for you.
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Well if that's the case, Mr. Bean's Holiday clearly won't do well at the box office.
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Armond White,
New York Press |
The Nanny Diaries |
"No actress has been humiliated as consistently as Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's recent movies. She was killed off in Match Point without Allen allowing her the likable life-force of Martha Raye in Monsieur Verdoux. Then he doused and dishonored her as a selfish birdbrain in Scoop. Allen seemed to be punishing Johansson for her young and sexy girlishness. It's one of the blessings of The Nanny Diaries that the directing/writing team Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini restore Johansson's humanity." |
Playing a NYU-educated brunette = restoring one's humanity as an actress.
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Scott Foundas,
The Village Voice |
The Nanny Diaries |
"But even on the worst days [as the assistant to a successful movie and television director] — the ones when I was berated for my incompetence and denied the chance to speak a single word in my defense — the thought of writing a tell-all book never crossed my mind." |
Scott Foundas would never stoop to writing a tell-all roman à clef. Now a review à clef on the other hand. . .
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Stephen Hunter,
The Washington Post |
The Nanny Diaries |
"In The Nanny Diaries the great Laura Linney takes the most reprehensible of icons, the snooty, privileged, controlling Upper East Side rhymes-with-rich." |
Isn't it fun when big newspaper's restrictions force them to get creative with hints and euphemisms? |
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Matt Zoller Seitz,
The New York Times |
Hannah Takes the Stairs |
"[The so-called Do It Yourself (or D.I.Y.)] wave of microbudget filmmaking is distinguished by its low-fi production values (16-millimeter film or, more often, video); its overwhelmingly white, college-educated, myopic and aimless characters; its improvised camerawork, plots and dialogue; and its preference for fleeting observations over huge epiphany." |
"When is the Next New Wave going to come along? Think this might be it?" No.
"What about this 'D.I.Y' thing that the kids are in to?" Nope, not that either.
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