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EWs Chris Nashawaty says:
Wilsons title refers to the fence that Troy is building around his backyard.
Its his way of keeping the harsh, unfair world out and protecting whats his.
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Washington and Davis performances do just the opposite.
They invite us in to an intimate place thats messy and painful and hard to shake.
Its as good as screen acting gets.A
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It also plays the hard-boiled game so faithfully that the genres guns-and-dolls tropes hardly get dusted.
It never doesnt look stupid.
Michael Sheen is great.
Like a lot of R-rated comedies,Why Him?lands on the most G-rated ideals.
All family problems and economic struggles can be overcome: After all, it is Christmas.
ButWhy Him?has no fun along the way its central conflict.
Its built on smoke and mirrors.
Someone in Hollywood Peter Berg, perhaps really needs to give Alexander her own movie.
Plotwise,Womenis a wisp; as a mood piece, though, its almost irresistibly rich.
Rogue Onewould have been a very good stand-alone sci-fi movie if it came out under a different name.
(Thankfully, Moana doesnt have a love interest.)
And like those films, its phantasmagorical special effects are easy on the eyes.
So why doesFantastic Beastsfeel so oddly lifeless?
Why doesnt it cast more of a spell?
First, there are the performances, which aside from Redmaynes are surprisingly flat.
And second, the thinness of the source material gives the whole film a slightly padded feeling.
Maybe this is all necessary table-setting that will lead to bigger payoffs in chapters 2 through 5.
