Acting is sort of an unspoken agreement between the thespian and the audience: He or she pretends to be someone else, and we pretend we don’t know about the pretending. Unfortunately, however, there are some actors whose stratospheric celebrity is making it increasingly difficult for us to hold up our end of the bargain. George […]
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Film Review: “Gone Girl”
Whether in literature or cinema, the mystery story provides an endlessly fascinating source for all kinds of narratives. In a sense, all stories, even all sentences, are mysteries of a sort, since we do not “solve” them until they end. The mystery in the new movie “Gone Girl” demonstrates some of the rich potential of […]
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Film Review: “Gone Girl”
Whether in literature or cinema, the mystery story provides an endlessly fascinating source for all kinds of narratives. In a sense, all stories, even all sentences, are mysteries of a sort, since we do not “solve” them until they end. The mystery in the new movie “Gone Girl” demonstrates some of the rich potential of […]
