'Gone Baby Gone' (****)
'Gone Baby Gone' (****)
Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:00 pm
'Gone Baby Gone' (****)
By Jason Wallis
News-Sentinel Film Critic
Lodinews.com
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People think being a movie critic is all fun and games, and that
would be true if every movie in release was worth seeing.
Unfortunately, trying to see the "big" movies every week means
wading through a lot of unmitigated trash. Far from fun, it can
often be genuinely disheartening to be confronted with such
mediocrity week after week, and then have to evaluate such wastes
of time in order to warn others away.
But sometimes (once or twice a year, if I'm lucky), I come
across a film that makes it all worthwhile - a movie that, in one
swift motion, temporarily wipes away all the boredom and disgust
that comes with being a weekly moviegoer in this increasingly
dreadful Hollywood market, and makes cinema beautiful again. "Gone
Baby Gone" is one of those special films, and may very well be the
finest motion picture I've had the pleasure of seeing in the past
seven years. Simply put, it's why I go to the movies.
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posted at 3:24 pm on Sat, Nov 3, 2007.
I went to this film largely based on Jason's assessment. A more accurate review I have not seen. Wallis nailed this movie in every way. Intense, thought-provoking and brilliantly evocative of the neighborhood in which it is set. We in Lodi are lucky (as is the News-Sentinel) to have such a local reviewer.