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Film This Week in Film: The Lovely Bones
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:19 PM
Paul Constant reports, underwhelmed:
The Lovely Bones is a collection of scenes that are not connected by tone, or narrative propulsion, or really anything but proximity. A good portion of the running time is taken up with montages—a glamorous fashion parade here, a half-dozen abandoned corpses of underage girls there, a wacky sequence featuring Susan Sarandon’s pill-popping grandmother failing at simple domestic tasks (she sweeps dust under a carpet!) over there—and none of them feel like they’re in the right film.
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