‘DIE MY LOVE’: Postpartum Dread Lacks Direction
Madness consumes a new mother in Lynne Ramsay’s latest vision of domesticity gone bad. Set in the isolated countryside, 'Die My Love' explores postpartum depression pushed to its breaking point…
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Out in Theaters: A WALK IN THE WOODS
Unabashedly sentimental and overtly geared towards the elderly folks in the audience, the overly tender Kwapis filters his comic sensibility through an aggressively broad strainer. The outcome is the equivalent…
REVIEW
Nick Nolte Talks A WALK IN THE WOODS
Of all the issues I had with A Walk in the Woods (our review) – the telling of Bill Bryson’s failure to complete the Appalachian Trail – Nick Nolte was not amongst them. In fact, he was the solitary beacon of hope shining through a film that otherwise stank of mediocrity. After the screening, the...
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Sundance Review: A WALK IN THE WOODS
Robert Redford‘s adaptation of Bill Bryson‘s popular 1998 memoir A Walk In the Woods is an unremarkable journey with a short sprinkling of low-key chuckles and a heaving dose of schmaltzy sentiment. As Redford’s travel companion, co-star Nick Nolte manages to give this low-percolating buddy comedy/road-movie-on-foot at least some minor footing, but its not enough...