The Cinema for 10/17/08: "W" Getting Rave Reviews, And Hated By The Right Wing
(Photo From www.nydailynews.com). Who needs to do a hit job when the man himself provides all the material to do one on himself. "W" is handled real well. The reviews are in. From every reputable newspaper and movie critic, "W" is one of the best movies of 2008 (unless you beg to differ). And showing how good it is (or bad, from your perspective of course), the right wing hates it. The New York Daily News' Joe Neumaier gives the movie a solid "four out of five stars" , and highlights the only problems in it from his review. Dreyfuss perfectly captures "Vice's" lumpen Mephistophelian stillness, and Jeffrey Wright makes Colin Powell's own deal with the Devil quietly shattering. James Cromwell's George H.W. Bush is bewildered and saddened by his son's missteps, Elizabeth Banks' Laura Bush checks her intelligence for politics, and Young's Rove is like a creepy alien cranium in search of a body. Less spot-on are Glenn's...