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Pride & Prejudice<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2005)<\/p>\n After early supporting roles as Queen Amidala’s decoy in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace <\/em>(1999) and second fiddle to Captain Jack Sparrow in the\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> films<\/a>, Keira Knightley proved a more than capable leading lady as Elizabeth Bennet. Director Joe Wright was obviously impressed with her work and subsequently cast her as the lead in Atonement<\/em> (2007) and\u00a0Anna Karenina<\/em> (2012).<\/p>\n Thanks to his role as President Snow<\/a>, Donald Sutherland\u00a0has more cultural cach\u00e9\u00a0in the twilight of his career than any point since MASH\u00a0<\/em>(1970). \u00a0Sadly, he’s pedestrian as Mr. Bennet and doesn’t bring anything to the role.<\/p>\n Brenda Blethlyn was fantastic in Secrets & Lies<\/em>\u00a0(1996), but you wouldn’t know it from her nondescript work as matriarch Mrs. Bennet.<\/p>\n Fortunately, Dame Judi Dench always elevates the material, and her performance as the manipulative Lady Catherine de Bourgh is the highlight of the film.<\/p>\n Joe Wright, whose work focuses on adaptations of celebrated novels about women, does a decent job adapting Jane Austen’s novel<\/a>, but her work runs together and I can’t get excited for yet another movie about women seeking a husband to protect them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stranger by the Lake<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2013)<\/p>\n I wish I could forget this vile film about homosexuals who meet for illicit encounters by a lake in the woods.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stoker<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2013)<\/p>\n India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) enjoys a typical adolescence until her father dies on her eighteenth birthday and her mysterious uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) shows up at his funeral.<\/p>\n Evelyn (Nicole Kidman), India’s mother, is too detached and disinterested in her husband’s death and the sexual attraction between her and Charlie is heavy-handed.<\/p>\n Mia Wasikowska is a blank slate and never allows us to get into India’s head, making the central character frustratingly inscrutable.<\/p>\n Jacki Weaver is underused as Aunt Gwendolyn, who unsuccessfully tries to warn the family of Uncle Charlie’s checkered past.<\/p>\n Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy<\/em> (2003) is a fantastic, stylish film, but his English language debut leaves a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n Screenwriter Wentworth Miller (best known as\u00a0Michael Scofield<\/a>) claimed he only used Shadow of a Doubt<\/em>\u00a0(1943) as a starting point, but the two films share\u00a0so much in common, this movie is better understood as a poorly executed remake of Hitchcock’s classic film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pride & Prejudice\u00a0(2005) After early supporting roles as Queen Amidala’s decoy in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) and second fiddle to Captain Jack Sparrow in the\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean films, Keira Knightley proved a more than capable leading lady as Elizabeth Bennet. 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