Just a glance at his filmography — “Gladiator,” “Master and Commander,” “Noah” — tells you that Russell Crowe knows about starring in sweeping historical epics, so it’s a little frustrating that he seems to have learned nothing from Scott, Weir, Aronofsky, et al., about how to direct them. Crowe stars in his disappointing feature-filmmaking debut, […]
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Film Review: “Noah”
Like the Biblical account of creation, with Adam and Eve consuming the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden or the construction and destruction of the Tower of Babel, the story of Noah reflects the Bible’s cyclical accounts of mankind’s overreaching and its consequent punishment. Darren Aronofsky’s new film, “Noah,” changes a good deal in […]
