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August: Osage County accomplishes a task made exceedingly difficult by its crossing of mediums – it converts an award-winning stage play into an actually engaging two-hour film. True to its theatrical nature, it’s, by necessity, several rooms full of interrelated characters arguing about an agreed-upon and slowly revealed backstory, in which the three most exciting
THE MONUMENTS MEN, Clooney’s latest directorial endeavor, improves marketably on the formula established in the non-fiction book (of the same name) on which it is based, but does manages to suffer from a handful of its own unique pitfalls. Adapting the historical events in a vastly more entertaining way than its source material, THE MONUMENTS
Certainly, there are as many ways to write engaging and immersive literary non-fiction as there are to write engaging and immersive literary fiction. Oftentimes, the best subjects for such works are the strange corner-cases of history, unexplored lacunas that public consciousness is scarcely aware and could stand to be better informed of. Such, I assumed,
THE SPECTACULAR NOW examines the lives of high school teens in a manner that doesn’t trivialize, sexualize or demean them. At times, the film may succeed in sentimentalizing high school and cannot quite decide precisely how its audience is meant to feel about its protagonist, Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), but in the end, the film
