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The heart wants, Woody has always told us, but it has been a long time since he has told us so beautifully. Way back in Annie Hall, whose themes this one plays with, in some cases more effectively--dare I say more maturely?--we had one of the greatest pair of scenes, wherein what has changed is only (!) the girl. Here we have similarly paired scenes, and again the girl has changed, but it's the same girl (Kristen Stewart, who is about ready for the Academy to start paying attention to, don't you think?). The boy (Jesse Eisenberg, ditto, don't you think?) has changed too, and so have their respective and shared worlds, but the uncoupled couple somehow hasn't.
The bittersweet of the earlier film is bitterer here, and as much as I love Annie Hall, that's not a complaint.
Trailers
- La La Land--Looks like a spiritual remake of Pennies from Heaven.
- American Pastoral--With one Philip Roth adaptation getting good reviews currently, here comes his best novel to the screen.
- Sully--Tom Hanks as another real-life heroic, death-defying captain.
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