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The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel

If anyone was in doubt about George Clooney’s ability to transition from suave, sarcastic, and often rakish leading man to playing a grayer, more rough-hewn elder statesman, and the big D “Dad” on screen, Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, a moving, whimsical portrait of a Hawaiian land baron marooned in crises both familial and fiscal, ought to change their minds faster than a Mai Tai. Read more…