I think that what I call baseline tennis — meaning, now they're old, now they're young, now they're old, now they're young — that kind of movie, back and forth, is boring.
I think that what I call baseline tennis meaning, now they're old, now they're young, now they're old, now they're young that kind of movie, back and forth, is boring.
This week: Computers, set-top boxes (like AppleTV), and AV receivers are battling to be your household hub, streaming music and movies back and forth across your pad until you become sterile and glow in the dark.
MINUSES -- The movie's back-and-forth structure quickly becomes a gimmick, and despite its wonderful performances the movie feels cramped, shallow and ultimately incomplete.
Critics came down hard on the movie, a back-and-forth pair of love stories about a contemporary woman who is preoccupied with the affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII.
Mr. Keys -- a prolific documentary filmmaker and concert producer, many of whose films have musical subjects -- conceived the movie when he was invited to Havana to teach a master class, and the movie jumps back and forth between the Cuban capital and New York.
And as the movie flashes back and forth between his glum grown-up existence and an adolescence that the movie remembers in shimmering shades of sun-washed green, we follow the idyllic relationship of the teenage Sam (Lindley Joyner) and his sweetheart, Silvy (Brooke Harmon).
You expect to have to work a bit with a Christopher Nolan film, but this long, slow tease of a movie, leaping back and forth in time as you expect from the Memento man, left me cold.
The director, Felix Van Groeningen, spends the whole movie swatting back and forth in time.
The movie spins back and forth in time and memory, and Winslet's character provides the focus.
The movie clicks back and forth between these three as they grind — scrubbing, whispering, and weeping — through their daily chores.
