At The Movies

Scott Tobias on Men, Women & Children

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Despite a few last-ditch pleas of moderation, Reitman offers a comprehensive portrait of The Way We Live Now, and the overall effect is a mass freakout, like a roomful of grandparents booting…

“There was more data pushed through on this film than on anything we’ve ever done.” Data always wins. How else to explain Transformers $300 million opening weekend? The people demand data in all forms. So give them more data! Feed it through every available input.

So there’s a movie that’s like having a child and watching it grow up, but without actually having to have the child, and the watching it grow up part takes less than three hours? Sounds pretty perfect to me.

This week just keeps getting better. #fml pic.twitter.com/j7Ix6QxrVG

— Keith Uhlich (@keithuhlich) January 10, 2014