STRAWBERRY KILLING FIELDS FOREVER: Max (Joe Anderson) sees red after he's sent to Vietnam in Across the Universe
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Tino is presented as an inspirational life force who's meant to earn our admiration (and our laughs), but he's merely annoying, coming across like a quirky reject from an early draft of a Coen Brothers screenplay. The mob shenanigans seem as artificial as the family dysfunction, and the whole enterprise has the feel of one of those sloppy, homemade films posted on YouTube.
But at least McKinnon had the sense to offer a cameo to the former king of Southern cinema, Burt Reynolds.
(Note: Ray McKinnon will hold an audience Q&A after the 7:20 p.m. show and introduce the 9:30 p.m. show of Randy and the Mob this Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Ballantyne Village Theatre.)
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
***1/2
DIRECTED BY Julie Taymor
STARS Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
***1/2
DIRECTED BY Andrew Dominik
STARS Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck
THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE
***
DIRECTED BY Susanne Bier
STARS Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro
THE DARJEELING LIMITED
**1/2
DIRECTED BY Wes Anderson
STARS Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody
LUST, CAUTION
**1/2
DIRECTED BY Ang Lee
STARS Tony Leung, Tang Wei.
DAN IN REAL LIFE
**1/2
DIRECTED BY Peter Hedges
STARS Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche
RANDY AND THE MOB
*1/2
DIRECTED BY Ray McKinnon
STARS Ray McKinnon, Lisa Blount
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