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weblogs.variety.com - 11/24/2008

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review

— weblogs.variety.com — I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Saturday (following the aborted Thursday screening ), and have been trying to sort it out ever since. David Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) have delivered an historic ... The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Review

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weblogs.variety.com - 11/13/2008

Oscar Watch: Early Benjamin Button Review

— weblogs.variety.com — One of my industry spies has emailed me an early review of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt as the man who ages backwards. This confirms my instinct sight unseen: this movie is in the hunt for multiple ... Oscar Watch: Early Benjamin Button Review

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awardsdaily.com - 11/23/2008

Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A

— awardsdaily.com — Today’s screening was held in the swanky Paramount theater. In attendance for the Q&A was director David Fincher, screenwriter Eric Roth and most of the heads of the tech departments. I don’t want to jinx the movie by ... Benjamin Button Screening and Q&A

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Variety’s (Sort of) Benjamin Button Review
Awards Daily — Wither Todd McCarthy? JustJared points us to this Benjamin Button review in Variety written not by Todd McCarthy ...

New 'Benjamin Button' Posters and the First Fawning Review
Get The Big Picture — The first official review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has been published over at Variety, and critic Robert Abele says the new David Fincher film starring Brad Pitt has a chance to become "a category-sweeping juggernaut, with Fincher on track to score his first Academy nomination.” Abele also notes that Fincher has "fashioned an effects-laden but character-driven epic that recalls the sweetly doomed, emotional glamour of Hollywood's golden era." ...

Early Buzz: Benjamin Button - IndieWire is Unimpressed, Variety Predicts Fincher’s First Academy Nomination
/Film — IndieWire’s Eugene Hernandez has seen David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and admits “that Benjamin Button is, on first viewing, hardly a lock for best picture,” but that “the attention that will justifiably be paid to its considerable technological achievements could sweep it into the higher profile categories.” For example, Forrest Gump (also written by Eric Roth) was popular with the Academy because of the film’s technical achievements. Hernandez encourages readers to watch WALL-E again “for a much more ...