The Cinema For 7/30/10: "Get Low" Brings Up A Real Low Week

Two brutal movies, one middle of the road, and this summer's latest superb movie are what highlights this week edition of the Cinema.

In one of the more underrated and under hyped movies of the year, "Get Low" staring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray is an absolute winner.

Almost all the critics love it, and it for sure deserving to be mentioned as not only one of the films of the summer, but one of the films of 2010. It's that legit.

Peter Tavers of Rolling Stone :

All you need to know is that Get Low puts Duvall and Murray in the same movie. Only a fool would want to miss that. Murray gets big laughs without skimping on the minute details that build a fully rounded character. And watching Murray spar with Duvall is pure pleasure. By the end of this funny, touching and acutely observed film, shot in Georgia by the gifted cinematographer David Boyd and flavored by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's bluegrass score, Felix reveals his secret heart. And Duvall, without a word wasted or fumbled, holds you in thrall.

And "At The Movies" explains how its amazing cast is all what the films needs to rely on to flourish.

The one so-so movie that has spilt the critics almost in half is "Dinners With Schmucks", which despite its talented class doesn't have the full plot to live up to it despite the occasional pleasing moments.

Really though, James Berardinelli sums it up perfectly again. This guy is really good:

Director Jay Roach is the man behind two highly successful comedy franchises: working with Mike Myers, he created and helmed the Austin Powers saga, and his collaboration with Ben Stiller resulted in the birth of the Fockers. Certainly, Roach has sufficient credibility in Hollywood to pick and choose his projects, so one wonders why The Dinner Game remake struck his fancy. Perhaps he believed he could do better with an English-language translation, especially with the likes of Steve Carell and Paul Rudd on board. However, as is typically the case with even mediocre foreign comedies, Hollywood remakes rarely improve on the original. At least in this case, it isn't worse.

Now let's get to what makes this an utterly trash week, talented actor Zac Efron is in another movie that is below in his talents in "Charlie St. Cloud." Not much is needed to be said about this debbie downer, as the former Disney star is just way too good for this very subpar movie.

This opinion by Michael Phillips is one of the best summations of a movie ever:

The story's icky, frankly.

And do we really need to go there on "Cats and Dogs?"

Do we? I think not.

That's The Cinema for this week folks......

FIN.