Rachel Getting Married ***
Anne Hathaway gives her Oscar Nominated performance in Rachel Getting Married as Kym, who comes home from rehab to witness the final days leading up to her sister Rachel’s wedding. It is not the story itself that pulls the focus in this film but Hathaway herself.--Sean Marshall Metcalf
Milk****
Milk is one of the great films of 2008. It not only has the Oscar winning performance of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk but also a great supporting cast as well. The story itself centers on equal rights for gay people in late 70’s San Francisco but it definitely mirrors some of the struggles of gay people in California and in the county today.--Sean Marshall Metcalf
Role Models **1/2
Role Models is in the vein of the Judd Apatow buddy films as 40 year old Virgin, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Knocked Up. It is defiantly not as good or as raunchy as any of the ones mentioned but it is fun nevertheless. It also has a stand out performance by Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin of Superbad) as a teen who is obsessed with a Dungeons & Dragons type game. --Sean Marshall Metcalf
Frozen River ****
Frozen River not only has the best performance by a female (Melissa Leo) in 2008 but also tells a story that very memorable. Its central plot revolves around illegal immigration over the Canadian Boarder via the frozen St Lawrence River. It is a story where nature, in this case a frozen river, becomes a central character in the story. This is a must film!--Sean Marshall Metcalf
I agree with your appraise for Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married. However, I believe her character is supposed to take focus away from the other characters of the film, because the film is a character study piece about her. Hathaway convincingly portrays one of the years most dynamic individuals, a woman struggling with both a mental disorder and an addiction, while dealing with the demons of her past. Rachel Getting Married receives ***1/2 stars from me out of ****.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you've said about Milk. My opinions are in my blog post of my **** star reviews of the year. Milk receives **** out of ****.
I thoroughly enjoyed the performance of Melissa Leo in Frozen River. I believe it was incredibly underrated and the film itself is both hypnotic and suspensful. It's not the typical kind of action-suspense filled film, but the reality of the gritty situation and the loss of hope that these characters take us on along their journey, makes this film well worth the watch. ***1/2 out of ****.
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