Movie Reviews

Vantage Point

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The Story: The story of the attempted assassination of the U.S. president told from several different points of view. The Lowdown: Telling the movie’s story through the eyes of multiple characters quickly becomes a gimmick, which would be fine if it weren’t such an uninteresting one.

Charlie Bartlett

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The Story: Having been thrown out of a string of private schools, Charlie Bartlett faces life in the public-school system, where he becomes a hit through amateur psychiatry and prescription drugs. The Lowdown: An engaging, savvy little film that errs by borrowing a little too much from other movies, but still succeeds thanks to a…

Be Kind Rewind

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The Story: When all the VHS tapes are accidentally erased at a failing rental store, the clerk and his friend decide to remake the lost inventory themselves. The Lowdown: One of the most charming, joyous and creative films you're likely to see this year -- or most years. No, it's not realistic. It's better than…

Step Up 2 the Streets

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The Story: A young dancer from the streets is forced to go to a private arts school, where she starts a dance crew in order to compete in an underground dance competition. The Lowdown: Yet another dance movie filled with clichés and teen melodrama that never really tries to do anything new.

Me & You, Us, Forever

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The Story: A recently divorced Christian man becomes fixated on his girlfriend of 30 years ago. The Lowdown: Even allowing for the bare-bones independent-production problems, this is simply a painfully slow character study in which people talk endlessly yet do very little.

Jumper

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The Story: A young man with the ability to teleport himself runs afoul of a group bent on destroying anyone with such powers. The Lowdown: A preposterous, generally incoherent story made just that much worse by an unlikable lead character and a cornucopia of bad ideas.

Definitely, Maybe

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The Story: A young man on the verge of divorce tells his daughter the story of the three women he has loved in his life, and how one of them became her mother. The Lowdown: An agreeable, good-natured romantic comedy with characters and performers that smooth over the more predictable bits and its slightly clunky…

The Last Wave

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The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Last Wave at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. (From Asheville, take I-26 to U.S. 64 West, turn right at the third light onto Thompson Street. Follow to the Lake Point Landing entrance and…

Fool’s Gold

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The Story: A down-on-his-luck treasure hunter ropes his newly ex-wife into searching for a sunken treasure. The Lowdown: Flat romance, lame comedy and a so-so adventure plot are brought even lower by an excessive running time. Mild compensation comes from the scenery.