{"id":677,"date":"2007-01-14T19:24:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/01\/what_theyre_not_telling_you_ab_1\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T19:24:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T00:24:15","slug":"what_theyre_not_telling_you_ab_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/01\/what_theyre_not_telling_you_ab_1\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT THEY’RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT:"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Painted Veil
\n<\/B>


\n<\/A>
\nSleeper<\/A> of the year, with an unnecessarily distracting and anachronistic score by Alexandre Desplat<\/A> featuring the very overhyped Lang Lang.
\n


\n
\nEragon
\n<\/B>

Featuring the Come Hither Line of the Year: “You look… fit for battle.”
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\n
\nThe Good Shepherd
\n<\/B>


\nGood performances, weak writing, especially for the lead, which also weakens it central metaphor (that American wasps have no soul, God’s frozen people, yada yada yada…) Juicy cameo by Joe Pesci. Choice score from Bruce Fowler and Marcelo Zarvos which melts right into the picture as you watch; it’s not noticeable in the best of ways. One of those weird reversals where the melodrama and the twist get overplayed while the music stays understated.
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\nBONUS POINTS
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\nFor
\nBen Kweller<\/A>‘s Brain Wilson story on Studio 360, followed by a high-wire solo turn on “God Only Knows.”
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\n
\nMORE BONUS POINTS
\n<\/B>


\nFor the tagline to the forthcoming schlock-horror Primeval<\/A>: “based on true events.”
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\nALMOST FORGOT
\n<\/B>

Jimmy Guterman’s blogging<\/A> again, hide the silver. (You’d think by now he would have weighed in on Salewicz.) Tipped me off to Amy Rigby’s blog<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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