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   EVERYBODY’S FINE
   Not this moviegoer

 The easiest way to think of this film is that it’s Robert DeNiro’s version of Jack Nicholson’s “About Schmidt” and the problem is nothing here works as well as “About Schmidt.” DeNiro has his best role in ages, but he has almost no help in making you care about his role as a widower trying to reconnect with his adult sons and daughters. Pass.

 



   INVICTUS
   Too conventional

   This latest from Clint Eastwood reminds me of the old historical films from the 1940s and 1950s…the kind where all the energy was put in simply telling a story, assuming that it alone was enough. The history lesson here touches a lot of bases, including leadership, courage and forgiveness—both on the rugby field and in the halls of government. Morgan Freeman is convincing as Nelson Mandela, the South African statesman, and Matt Damon does all he can with a cardboard role, but there was simply too little drama or tension to keep me in the theater for more than the first of the two hours.
 


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