Holiday Films
Some quick reviews of other films recently seen: Lincoln. This is good, I'm not sure it's that good. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing as Lincoln, and there are other good performances to be had. But the second half of the movie was way more interesting. The first half, there's a lot of political arm-twisting taking place but it's a very prosaic kind of arm-twisting, partronage jobs for votes. Boring, nod off. In the second half, the deadlines are approaching, the stakes are clearer, things are more fraught and more taut, the arm-twisting is more subtle and much more strong-armed, the morality of everything is more clearly heightened. John Williams isn't just for superhero movies, he delivers a score here that is good in an almost invisible kind of way. The Impossible: Kind of like Lincoln, parts of it that are very good and parts of it that are much more prosaic. Not yet in wide release but being touted for Academy Award attention, Naomi ...