One Minute Review: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Oliver Stone brings back 80s corporate evil-doer Gordon Gekko for a romp in the world of bank bail-outs and the Great Recession.  Can Shia LaBeof and Carrey Mulligan survive his wicked ways?  Can America?  Or has Gordon gone straight?  Should any of us care?  Watch the One Minute Review, because (to misquote Mr. Gekko) the Review is Good.

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One Minute Review: The Town

With a stellar cast (Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Chris Cooper, etc.) and a great premise (Boston bank robber falls for former hostage), director/writer/star Ben Affleck has a lot going for him.  Does he pull it together, and pull it off?  The One Minute Review knows ...


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One Minute Review: The American

I have now watched and reviewed two "little" films starring well known actors--The American and Get Low.  Both are set in small towns.  Both feature mysterious and violent protagonists who have a special relationship with a clergyman.  Both explore themes of loneliness and love lost.  Both invoke God, forgiveness, and the possibility of redemption.  Both feature a mysterious assault.  Both build slowly to a grand finale.  Both have long, deliberate, and slow sections throughout the second act.  One of them held my attention, the other put me to sleep (metaphorically).  If I had an hour, I would love to dissect these two movies and talk about why one worked and the other didn't.  But this is, after all, only a "one minute review."

So, without further ado, the OMR of George Clooney's the American.


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