It's exceptionally well choreographed and filmed.
Even though it's filmed in exceptionally cramped conditions, it remains the most galvanized performance of this classic I have ever seen: music and dance seem to meet as if for the first time.
The film's director, Michael Barnett, says: "We wanted to make an exceptionally humanising film, and to start a conversation about how disabled people, rarely seen on screen or in our media, are excluded from our wider culture.
Notwithstanding that Francis Ford Coppola is an exceptionally gifted film director, credit must be given where credit is due.
However, the nature of this force is something that Fincher's exceptionally boring film doesn't explain.
"Phillip Noyce is an exceptionally talented film-maker and we're excited to see him bring Philip Roth's great American classic to the big screen," said Tom Rosenberg of production company Lakeshore Entertainment.
It was a bestseller when it was published during the Great Depression, and just last year, it ranked No. 6 on PBS's "Great American Reads". But like several of our most popular books — I'm looking at you, "To Kill a Mockingbird" — its immortality has been buttressed by an exceptionally memorable film adaptation.
It is also an exceptionally difficult film to actually watch.
Indeed, it was an exceptionally traditional film for the Coen brothers -- so that might have worked against them as well.
The chief delight, next to the travelogue beauty of the setting, is the performance of Patricia Clarkson as Juliette, the central character in this exceptionally romantic film.
I came out of August: Osage County wowed by the acting and the way writer Tracy Letts and director John Wells had distilled the three-hour-plus play into a tight but discursive and exceptionally compelling film.
