Carey Mulligan in Far from the Madding Crowd. Unabashedly romantic, sumptuously shot and wonderfully acted, Thomas Vinterberg’s adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd is the perfect anecdote for the summer movie overload. (Yes, I know the season has just begun, but I’m feeling special effects weary already.) This is the sort of […]
Matthias Schoenaerts
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Drop fails to live up to Hardy’s fine work
James Gandolfini stars as Cousin Marv and Tom Hardy stars as Bob Saginowski in Fox Searchlight Pictures’ The Drop. Michael Roskam’s The Drop is a movie I wanted to like more than I did. I kept looking among the many positive things in the film for just one more great moment, one more clever turn […]
