My Movie Reviews this week

all the movies reviews on this site are rated out of 5 stars

Punch Drunk Love

1/2 Stars! Barry Egan: Adam Sandler Lena Leonard: Emily Watson Dean Trumbell: Philip Seymour Hoffman Lance: Luis Guzman Elizabeth: Mary Lynn Rajskub

In "Punch-Drunk Love," Sandler plays Barry Egan, an executive in a company with a product line of novelty toiletries. Barry has seven sisters, who are all on his case at every moment, and he desperately wishes they would stop invading his privacy, ordering him around and putting him down. He tries at a family gathering to be friendly, but you can see the tension in his smiling lips and darting eyes, and suddenly he explodes, kicking out the glass patio doors. Who would have guessed Adam Sandler had such uncharted depths in acting, other than comedy.

Red Dragon

Stars!! Hannibal:Sir Anthony Hopkins Will Graham: Edward Norton Francis Dolarhyde: Ralph Fiennes Jack Crawford: Harvey Keitel Reba McClane: Emily Watson Molly Graham: Mary-Louise Parker Freddy Lounds: Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Lecter character, and the agents who deal with him, and the monsters who take him as a role model, create an atmosphere that encourages style in the filmmaking. It is much the same with the best upper-class crime novels. There is violence, yes, but also a lot of carefully described atmosphere, as we enter the attractive lives of the rich and vicious, you find that he hates to interrupt dinner with a murder.

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