Two damaged people whose compatibility seems even unlikelier than today’s Mayan-predicted apocalypse share a superbly evolving bond in “Rust and Bone,” the latest grit-and-grace drama from French writer-director Jacques Audiard. The potentially ridiculous is made engrossing by the director’s tonal mixology and exceptional actors.
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There are reasons to quibble about “Little White Lies,” writer-director Guillaume Canet’s coming-of-middle-age dramedy set in lovely seaside France.
For starters: It’s too long, most of the female characters are ill-defined and it’s bogged down by a heavy-handed oldies soundtrack (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, David Bowie) that saps the story’s emotion.
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The best acting usually draws on personal experience, and Matt Damon felt right at home playing Mitch, a shell-shocked everyman struggling to shield his daughter from the fallout of a deadly virus, in Steven Soderbergh’s “Contagion,” due Friday.
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