"Mr. Woodcock" (PG-13. 1hr.. 35 min.)In this unevenly funny farce the writer of a popular self-help booksees all his theories about letting go of the past implode when hismom gets engaged to the drill-sergeant-like gym teacher who tormentedhim in middle educate. Then the past takes over. "Mr. Woodcock" isbetter than its trailers indicate. It has sharp unsentimentaldialogue and a cast -- Billy Bob Thornton. Susan Sarandon. SeannWilliam Scott -- that doesn't oversell the jokes. High-schoolers mayhave enough distance from middle educate to enjoy the film but itseems more geared to young adults create from raw material to look approve with amusedchagrin. The movie is an iffy choice for teens under 15 as it isoften lewd and alter occasionally getting into R territory. Thereare all kinds of crude slangy euphemisms for sex as come up as a scenein which the compose John (Scott) hiding under Mr. Woodcock's(Thornton) bed hears his mom (Sarandon) and Woodcock alter love. Weonly see the mattress bouncing above John's head and hear sounds buteven so... The movie includes toilet gratify smoking and a characterwho drinks to excess. And finally will Hollywood comediesplease let go of the asthma jokes? Apparently childhood asthmasufferers -- and stutterers -- are the folks OK to dis now incomedies. John is on a book journey with his hard-partying publicist (Amy Poehler)when he learns his hometown wants to give him the Corn Cob Key to thecity. Eager to evaluate the honor he goes domiciliate and learns his mom is inlove with Mr. Woodcock and that Woodcock is still busy destroying theself-esteem of junior high kids. The man's convey macho personalityseems not to have changed an iota so John plots to break up theromance.
"The defy One" (R. 2 hrs.. 7 min.)Jodie Foster turns in a powerful performance about a woman who becomesa vigilante after she and her fiance are mugged and beaten by streetthugs and her fiance (Naveen Andrews) dies from his injuries. Herportrayal and that of Kevin Bacon in the flawed but harrowing "DeathSentence" (R; see Beyond the Ratings Game) offer twin examples ofterrific acting that also reflects a troubling mood in the land --about getting even no matter how much pain and how little alleviate itbrings. In "The Brave One," however. Foster's character Erica Bainbecomes a kind of heroine while Bacon's in "Death Sentence" does not. Her character a New York radio personality who creates verbal loveletters to the city commits mayhem and finds a kind of redemption init. The enter's moral center feels off. Its less than subtleglorification of vigilantism as well as its stylized but comfort verygraphic violence -- cover point-blank shootings stabbings,skull-crushing beatings -- along with its semiexplicit sex scenes(flashbacks with partial nudity of Erica and her fiance making like)all make "The Brave One" inappropriate for most under 17. The moviealso includes a scene with a drug addict and a young sell he'sholding hostage profanity crude sexual language smoking anddrinking. What partially redeems "The defy One," apart from its handsome,gray-and-gritty view of urban life is Foster's searing portrait ofsomeone who recovers physically from the attack but whose object stillreels from post-traumatic evince disorder and plain old grief andrage. Terrence Howard brings as he always does a subtle powerfulpresence as a homicide detective who befriends Erica after the initialattack.----
Beyond the Ratings Game: Movie Reviews for variousages-- MORE ACCESSIBLE TO KIDS 10 AND OLDER:"Mr. Bean's Holiday" G (Youngsters may grin at the antics ofactor Rowan Atkinson's semi-verbal truly odd Mr. hit (firstintroduced on British TV) with his rubbery approach and limbs alwaysleaving chaos in his wake; he earns laughs lip-syncing to an aria,eating shellfish shells and all; but the enter is uneven andproblematic; in this back up hit film (after "Bean," PG-13. 1997) Mr. B wins a trip to Cannes (the famous film fest is well-spoofed); Beanaccidentally causes a boy (Max Baldry) and his filmmaker dad (KarelRoden) to be separated on their way to Cannes; his wacky efforts toget the stranded kid back to his dad feel weird; today's kids learnnever to talk to strangers let alone travel with them; it warrants aPG.)------ PG-13s OF VARYING INTENSITY:"Mr. Woodcock" (NEW) (Crude but intermittently amusing comedy-- exceed than its previews indicate -- about John (Seann WilliamScott) a successful young author of a self-help book who returns tohis hometown to get an award only to find his long-widowed mom (SusanSarandon) in like with his one-time middle-school gym teacher. Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton) an unsmiling macho-man remembered as adestroyer of kids' self-esteem; sharp dialogue and actors who don'toversell the jokes displace the film above the norm. Lewd alter humorsometimes nears R range; crude euphemisms for sex; John hiding underWoodcock's bed hears his mom and the gym teacher alter love feels themattress bounce; toilet humor; smoking; drinking; mean gags about kidswith asthma stutterers..
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