Uneven and overly sunny it may be, but as literary love fuses with romantic love at an idyllic college, writer-director-actor Josh Radnor achieves nice-little-movie status and tickles the bookworm heart in his dramedy “Liberal Arts.”
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“Peace, Love and Misunderstanding” is a dramedy that wants to evoke purple haze, but has a story too beige and cliched to succeed as a salute to 1960s counterculture – or to do justice to the talents of the woman portraying its flower-powered heroine.
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It might seem reasonable to assume that Elizabeth Olsen hails from the same lifelong background in kid-friendly entertainment as older sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley, who were born in 1986, and became regulars on TV’s “Full House” just a year later.
But while Elizabeth, 22, bears a striking resemblance to her better-known siblings, her career path has hardly followed their blueprint for seemingly overnight success.
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“Martha Marcy May Marlene” tells the story of a young woman struggling to repair her splintered identity after escaping from a cult, and in the vein of recent indies such as “Take Shelter” and “Winter’s Bone,” it is a smallish but powerful American drama distinguished by inspired, no-frills directing and a striking central performance.
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It might seem reasonable to assume that Elizabeth Olsen hails from the same lifelong background in kid-friendly entertainment as older sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley, who were born in 1986, and became regulars on TV’s “Full House” just a year later.
But while Elizabeth, 22, bears a striking resemblance to her better-known siblings, her career path has hardly followed their blueprint for seemingly overnight success.
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