In Her Shoes isn’t “bad” as such; it’s well-directed by Curtis Hanson, well-acted by Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz, with a fine script that neatly avoids most of the banality and clumsy sentimentality that ought to be endemic to a film about two sisters realizing how much they need each other. But something just feels very…flat. For one, it’s much too long, especially in the second act when Diaz goes […]

If September taught me anything I already knew, it’s that the given release date for a movie is not always the same thing as the Chicago release date. But I would drive myself insane if I tried to compensate for that, so once again, courtesy of the IMDb: 7.10.2005Not a bad weekend, I think. I’m hugely excited about In Her Shoes, both for director Curtis Hanson, and because it looks […]