The Runaways is not nearly as wild as it should be and lacks depth, its paper thin story leaving the audience wondering far too much about what isn't being told. On a positive note, the film captures the look and feel of the mid-seventies, with solid performances from Stewart, Fanning and Shannon.
The Crazies
A remake of Romero's 1973 film of the same name, Eisner's Crazies never really gets under your skin. It telegraphs most of its scares, and too much of the movie is spent in typical horror movie fashion: running and hiding. It has its moments, and as far as remakes go, it's better than most, if that's really saying much.
Summer Hours
Summer Hours is a hauntingly beautiful and bittersweet film with excellent performances by the leads. This is not a character or plot driven film, but a thematic one, meditative and philosophical and evocatively told.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Effective and simple, this 2008 documentary intersperses game footage with interviews from some of the players and people who lived it, suspense slowly and surprisingly building toward an improbable conclusion, even though we already know the outcome.
The Runaways
Score: 60%
The Crazies
Score: 55%
Summer Hours
Score: 79%
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Score: 68%
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