Archive for December, 2011

The highlight of the The Help: The hard-of-hearing guy behind me in the theatre.

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

I finally saw The Help.

It has such honorable subject matter that it puts a critic in a difficult place: You’ll sound insensitive and heartless if you criticize it.

But film critics aren’t asked to consider what a movie’s about so much as how the movie is about it. So, I’ve strapped on my bulletproof vest. Here we go. …
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