Nebraska: beautiful little film. Quite well-written, this drama extracts the funny moments not by making fun of its characters, but by respecting them and being good-natured about their flaws, much like the way the main character, well-played by Will Forte, is. That is the source of the deep humanity of its simple story of complex, but wonderful, familial relationships. Bruce Dern is simply marvelous in the role, played with extreme simplicity and effectiveness; the whole cast is, in fact, strong. […]

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Hannah and Her Sisters: the episodic structure of this film breaks down the flow of the story and makes it less pleasurable to watch; it ends up weighting on the dialogues, that end up being overly expository at times. In the same vein, the humorous moments feel tacked on, inorganic. By the other hand, the stories told are, for the most part, interesting ones, and the gallery of characters, rich and definitely well-defended by the cast: Mia Farrow has the less […]

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