Reviews: December 2005 Archives
December 29, 2023
The best thing about Peter Jackson’s King Kong may be that his attachment to the project likely kept anybody else from getting the job. For all its flaws, and there are many — that bloated running time chief among them — King Kong at its best ranks as an extraordinary work of heart and soul, with a computer-generated beast at its heart that shames every other digital monster to date.
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You get almost 1000 hits when you run a Google search for "match point" woody departure, about 990 more than you get when you search "match point" woody "same old shit". That's a good thing, even if Woody Allen's newest film is less of a change-up than the PR suggests. It really has the old man's fingerprints all over it. The main thing in Allen's career right now that it's a departure from is sucking.
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