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Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, to Wall Street Execs: "Don't Think You're Safe"
By Nick Schager
5701 Sunset Drive, Ste. 300
South Miami, FL 33143
Category: Movie Theaters
Region: Coral Gables/South Miami
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19501 Biscayne Blvd., #3001
Aventura, FL 33180
Category: Movie Theaters
Region: Aventura/North Miami Beach
Precious director Lee Daniels's Southern Gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moistly set in South Florida in the '60s, it involves corn-fed creep John Cusack wrongfully on death row and coming to the attention of investigative journalist Matthew McConaughey, whose kid brother Zac Efron tags along for the reporting and crushes hard on the inmate's tarty pen-pal groupie, Nicole Kidman. The film was adapted by Daniels and Pete Dexter from Dexter's novel of the same name and seems aimed at anyone who, when young and impressionable, was treated to and weirdly turned on by a truant matinee of In the Heat of the Night. Or at least it's hard to imagine any better primer for enjoying minor flourishes such as David Oyelowo's deliberately brittle Poitier impression in the role of McConaughey's reporting partner, and family maid Macy Gray's coy narration. Not to mention major flourishes like the jailhouse showpiece in which Kidman and Cusack get each other off in spite of pressing journalistic questions and prohibited physical contact. Otherwise, when not contriving to get Efron out of his clothes, The Paperboy gropes for familiar movie language of its period setting: Soul music swells up excitedly over a jumble of jerky zooms, befuddling cuts, and spatial vagueness. But sometimes hot messiness has its charms.
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