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The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
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Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
London,
Nick Curtis's rating
Reader rating
Long title, long film. Writer-director Andrew Dominik's 160-minute Western intelligently deconstructs the myth of Jesse James, and is a feast for the eyes of snowy wastes and tawny fields.
It also has Brad Pitt proving he's much more than eye candy with a wonderful performance of (mostly) internalised, slow-burning psychosis as the titular outlaw and Casey Affleck, equally good as the youth who idolises then slays him.
Although Dominik makes a fetish of period authenticity - including acutely observed rhythms of speech but excluding all the sparkling teeth on show - he also shows us that our modern culture of celebrity, and the loopy fans who go with it, arguably originated in the old West. All good stuff but, boy, does he deliver it at a stately pace.
James, though a vicious killer, was idolised as a Confederate hero or just because - as in Ford's case - he was famous. Pitt's pasty, lizardeyed-Jesse is often shot out of focus, in shadow or through rippled glass, as if to suggest the inability of people, then and now, to see him clearly.
Painstakingly, Dominik periodically withdraws the focus from the outlaw to explore the shifting loyalties and horribly bleak lives of the rest of his gang.
He also powerfully suggests the messy awfulness of impending death. This is a measured, thoughtful contribution to the Western revival, lovely to look at but a bit too strong on detail and mood at the expense of pace.
• On general release from Friday 30 November.
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