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Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (2013)

Enough Already! Enough Already!

[2/10 · 9 March 2014]

Synopsis of first three minutes: We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie! We Love You, Stevie!

Next three minutes: I Love Me, Too! I Love Me, Too! I Love Me, Too! My House Is Fabulous! My House Is Fabulous! My House Is Fabulous! My Co-Director Is Fabulous, Too!

Lesson learned: Don't watch anything where the musical *star* is also the quasi-director.

I like Stevie Nicks' music, but this film was unbearable. (No, I didn't make it past the first six minutes. I'll give it two stars, in the hopes that later on its awfulness decreased by half.)

In the Cut (2003)

Lousy script

[3/10 · 17 April 2013]

The acting is fine. So are the directing and cinematography. But who cares? The story is so full of holes that it's hard to believe Campion wasted her time on such junk. A creepy ex-boyfriend and a student who happens to be fixated on serial murders? Nah, they're just filler, a couple of obvious suspects, though Meg Ryan's character isn't even bright enough to suspect them as she sleepwalks through her life. No, the killer is there in the background, waiting for the big reveal in the last five minutes. The plot stinks to high heaven.

Roger Ebert's review sums it up nicely: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/in-the-cut-2003