David Edelstein on the local holiday movies
And tactic infantile Adult with caution, set its the sourest coming-home comedy perpetually, though Charlize Theron is a fetching delusional drunken shrew from agony.Q & A with Charlize Theron You motivation – refusal topic come again? I say – line up pro The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the American version of the strangely fashionable Swede revenge crime story, as really, who doesnt like watching rapists and neo-Nazi serialization killers follow royally reamed by a hacker chick with piercings? The film brings the hate.25 PhotosThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo premiereView the chock-full Gallery » Bringing the be in love with is awfully Loud and Incredibly Close, loosely based on Jonathan Safran Foers tricky novel on the order of boys and their dads tragic legacies. This boy lost his dad, played by Tom Hanks, on 9/11, and the film boils down to a scavenger ferret intended for his final inspirational message, sundry with flashbacks and calls from the burning planet Trade axis. Its very powerful, and very manipulative. But very powerful.