Paul Rudd is woefully miscast as a pro baseball player-turned-spy in this World War II period thriller. Read our full The Catcher Was A Spy review here.
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Learn about the Paul Rudd The Catcher Was a Spy project. Rudd will lead the World War II thriller about Moe Berg, a pro baseball player and OSS spy.
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Hilarious, charming and heartwarming, The Sessions is one of the best films of the year. It's the true story of Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), a California-based journalist relegated to a gurney and iron lung because of disabling polio. At the age of 38, he’s still a virgin and, with the blessing of his priest (William H. Macy), Mark…
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Note: This is a reprint of my review of The Sessions, formerly The Surrogate, upon its premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. I've changed the name of the film below, but left everything else remains intact. It opens on a limited basis today and is truly one of the year's most special films. With…
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The story of a guy trying hard to get laid for the first time has been told and told again in many an R-rated comedy, but Ben Lewin's The Sessions isn't American Pie or even The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Instead, it's a truth-based drama that's garnering serious Oscar buzz for its star, John Hawkes. The Martha Marcy May…
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The title The Surrogate, to me, immediately calls up impressions of a horror film or thriller, but the movie that has had John Hawkes attached is something else entirely. An emotional thriller, perhaps. The Surrogate is based on a true story and will feature the actor as "Mark O'Brien, a paraplegic polio victim who lived…
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