Tagged: mood: drained

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Trishna (2011)

Winterbottom’s adaptation of Hardy’s novel provides an interesting character study for Pinto, who does an amazing job even when the script lets her down.

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Simple Life, A (2011)

A Simple Life is a simple story about a man named Roger and the anything-but-simple relationship with the woman who has worked for his family for 60 years of her life, Tao Jie.

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Tsumi to Batsu: A Falsified Romance

Miroku Tachi is a socially awkward young man who’s facing the harsh reality — people aren’t good by nature. When he meets the cold Hikaru Baba, a high school girl who’s a prostitution ring leader that enjoys making weak people suffer, Miroku takes on the task of eliminating the vermin of the world.

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Grey, The (2012)

Liam Neeson and Joe Carnahan work together once again in The Grey, a survival thriller based on Ian MacKenzie Jeffers’s short story, Ghost Walker.

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Hunger Games, The

The Hunger Games is a good film thanks to the cast, but it also presents some problems that are inevitable to notice.

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Chang-rae Lee – Aloft

Chang-rae Lee’s prose is so lyrical, he could build grocery shopping up as the epicenter of a crisis in singularity, transform clipping toenails into an existential quandary, and make sorting the recycling a prophecy of something tragic in the Greek sense of the word.