A- |
***½ |
+3-2|
Teens & Up*
Yet it’s right around this point that
Juno, which has been clever and insightful, unexpectedly reveals hidden layers of complexity and depth.
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B+ |
*** |
+2-1|
Teens & Up*
Lars Lindstrom goes through life doing his utmost not to. Every day he negotiates his world as an obstacle course, and the obstacles are other people. The awkwardness of proximity that many people feel in a crowded elevator as they avoid eye contact with strangers and put conversations on hold is how Lars feels with anybody, anywhere. You could say he is socially maladjusted, except I’m not sure he could be called anything with “socially” in it.
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B+ |
*** |
+2-1|
Teens & Up*
Just Like Heaven is the first Hollywood film since
Return to Me that I would put in the same league as that earlier film, and that’s saying something.
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B+ |
*** |
+2|
Teens & Up
The pious, folksy Irish and Italian
Catholicism of Carroll O’Connor and his cronies isn’t there for
the sake of either mockery or preachiness, but is simply taken
for granted, just as it might have been in a film of this sort
from fifty years ago, when they still made them. The story also
takes for granted (indeed, depends upon) the fact that the hero
and the heroine manage to fall in love and grow together without
taking their clothes off.
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