Thursday, October 27, 2011

Talking Pictures: 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' | 'The Rum Diary' | 'In Time' | 'Puss in Boots' | 'Anonymous'

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A famous sibling steps out in a film about families in 'Martha''
'Martha Marcy May Marlene' — 3 1/2 stars
A famous sibling steps out

Writer-director Sean Durkin immerses the viewer in a fluid state of psychological dissolution, keeping us very close to one woman's experience in a cult by any other name.

'Rum Diary' offers postcards from a lost friend 'The Rum Diary' — 2 1/2 stars
Postcards from a lost friend

Johnny Depp was a pal of Hunter S. Thompson; the film version of Thompson's early novel finds Depp paying tribute to the author.
'In Time': When 'time is money' is more than a cliche — 2 1/2 stars 'In Time' — 2 1/2 stars
'Time is money' is no cliche

In the future, humans will be genetically engineered to live to 25. You might be 50, or 105, but you look 25, always.
'Shrek' alum is top cat in 'Puss In Boots' -- 3 1/2 stars 'Puss in Boots' — 3 1/2 stars
'Shrek' alum is top cat

DreamWorks' cunning casting of the silky Spaniard Antonio Banderas as a swashbuckling Puss in Boots pays off in this star vehicle.
Elizabethan lit intrigue proves not that intriguing in 'Anonymous' -- 2 1/2 stars 'Anonymous' — 2 1/2 stars
Elizabethan lit intrigue

This is ridiculous, and like Oliver Stone's "JFK" it sells its political conspiracy theories by weight and by volume.
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