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What Culture | 'Trumbo' Review

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“If every scene is brilliant, your movie is going to be monotonous,” intones Dalton Trumbo to a high-reaching, self-aggrandising Otto Preminger. He’s damn right, and no movie shows it better than Trumbo.

Jay Roach’s biopic of the screenwriting genius blacklisted for his communist leanings isn’t perfect (although it is a damn sight more impressive than what you’d expect from the director of the Austin Powers trilogy). He falls into several of the traps of biopic filmmaking – background information is doled out in movie news reels, the world is full of references singularly to historically important events, images of the real life people play over the end-credits – and yet Trumbo rises above all that as an exciting, engaging, not-quite-brilliant-but-far-fr om-monotonous movie.

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WizzroSupreme3122d ago

That's some filmmaking wisdom right there.

RetrospectRealm3122d ago

Real iffy on this. Cranston is a must see but other than this review, I've heard it getting not so good reviews.

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