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latimes.com - 12/26/2008
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Instead of a beating heart, this project has ice water in its veins. Star power can't counterbalance the scattershot plot and showy special effects. And it's way too long.
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Though Hollywood suits have been trying to make it for decades, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is not a project that cries out to be filmed. Now that it's finally been turned into a major motion picture, complete with megawatt ...
latimes.com - 12/26/2008
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The days may be numbered for the old
Brad Pitt -- the Hollywood heartbreaker, the absurdly handsome
leading man who couldn't seem to keep his shirt on in a movie for more than five minutes, the prankster who once ran amok through the streets of L.A. ...
Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button - Los Angeles Times
rottentomatoes.com - 12/24/2008
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Synopsis: Director David Fincher and Brad Pitt team
up for a third time with this adaptation of
a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. Pitt plays a man who is born 80 years old, but instead of aging, he grows... Director David Fincher and Brad Pitt team ...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie Reviews, Pictures
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mtv.com - 12/22/2008
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The director also addresses comparisons to 'Forrest Gump'
and how 'lucky' everyone was to be in a
Cate Blanchett movie. By Josh Horowitz Jared Harris and David Fincher on the set of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Photo: ...
'Benjamin Button' Director David Fincher Talks Brad ...
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... memoir by newspaper columnist John Grogan) and keeps the performances natural. Both stars are well-matched to their roles and each other; Wilson gives his most mature performance to date. (Here are diametrically opposed reviews by Todd McCarthy and Tony Scott.)
Also doing well over the holiday, after Marley & Me, was The Curious Life of Benjamin Button, which also drew opposite reviews from Scott a rave and the LAT's Turan (a dismissive pan). Its Metacritic average was 70%. That's just ok, but it should score with Oscar ...
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