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Wanted: Best Movie of the Summer
What’s the best movie of the summer according to at least some British critics? “Wanted,” starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. “It is an in-yer-face blockbuster like nothing else this summer, and it’s going to be enormous,” said London’s Telegraph newspaper today. But the review said it’s not Angelina who keeps the film engaging but the Scottish actor McAvoy, “who throws himself into this supreme trash with the conviction of a brand-new Everyman action hero - shorter than usual, freaked out, and constantly apologizing.” The review said that the overall story — while entirely daft — is utterly entertaining.
The reviewer also liked “Hancock,” which stars Will Smith as a slovenly superhero with anger management issues. “For everything that doesn’t work in ‘Hancock,’ there’s a sort of structural anarchy going that’s refreshing - it rebels against even the adolescent formulae of rebellion to give us something more adult. It also has one quality that your average superhero flick never does: You haven’t the faintest clue where it’s going.”
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