Outrageously talented writer-director Quentin Tarantino has made tightly constructed, polished films as well as outrageously diverging works of near-insanity.
He also is a brilliant critic, somewhat like Jean-Luc Godard, making movies about movies and deconstructing them in endlessly inventive ways.
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Maestro of menace Roman Polanski and four fine actors can’t reap sizzling satire from a slight idea in “Carnage,” a verbal slugfest based around the observation that upscale, sophisticated adults can behave more childishly than their squabbling kids. But they dramatize the urban truism vividly and entertainingly.
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"Water for Elephants” is an ambitiously presented dramatization of the best-selling big-top novel, and, sadly, it amounts to basically a hunk, a trunk and lots of Hollywood gunk as its story of forbidden love unfolds amid too-pretty Depression-era decor.
A story of this sort needs grit, originality, tension and passion. Instead, we get a routine love triangle presented mildly, meekly and with artificial sunshine.
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