The Tourist (von Donnersmarck, 2010)
The shots of Venice were dazzlingly beautiful in The Tourist. I would really love to visit that city some day. That's not much of a compliment for the film, though, is it?
The shots of Venice were dazzlingly beautiful in The Tourist. I would really love to visit that city some day. That's not much of a compliment for the film, though, is it?
Which do you trust more: a gushing rave from a person who went into a film enthusiastic to begin with, or grudging respect from a skeptical viewer who had to be won over?
Home runs hit with two strikes count the same as home runs that leave the park on the first swing.
Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck's Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of my film year, a high school comedy with wit rather than snark, charm rather vulgarity, and heart rather than hormones.
I was able to accept this not as a blueprint for how to live my life but as one woman's story about how she chose to try to live hers and things that she learned while doing it.