You probably caught on
Awards Daily that some early reviews of
The Lovely Bones are out. Lots more to come presumably. But did you see this tweet from British actor/novelist/funny man
Stephen Fry
Variety is
significantly less riveted than Fry, calling it an "
artistic disappointment". Todd McCarthy also crushes my dreams by starting the review talking about
Heavenly Creatures, a film which he seems to hold in as high regard as I do (One of the three best films of the 1990s, if you ask me).
The "disappointment" seems to stem from Jackson's infatuation with visual f/x. As for its actors, this bit is interesting...
With reddish hair, brilliantly alive eyes and a seemingly irrepressible impulse for movement and activity, Ronan represents a heavenly creature indeed, a figure of surging, eager, anticipatory life cut off just as it is budding. Less quicksilver and more solidly built, McIver's Lindsey properly begins in her live-wire sister's shadow only to grow gradually into an impressive figure. Chain-smoking and depleting the liquor cabinet, Sarandon camps it up for a few welcome laughs...
McCarthy is less impressed with the parental units, Wahlberg and Weisz. Are you still counting down the days until dem bones arrive?
Variety is significantly less riveted than Fry, calling it an "artistic disappointment". Todd McCarthy also crushes my dreams by starting the review talking about Heavenly Creatures, a film which he seems to hold in as high regard as I do (One of the three best films of the 1990s, if you ask me).
