I'll post this blurb from Oz and then go hunt for Peter Travers' review, which I haven't been able to find yet. I'm so glad they describe the review as 'glowing'. And his remarks about Russell are glowing, too. Thank you, Peter Travers...smooch!
http://www.news.com.au/co...,24457172-5012980,00.html
RUSSELL Crowe might have developed the bloated physique of Marlon Brando for his role in Body of Lies.
However he has also put in a heavyweight performance, as CIA reigning spymaster Ed Hoffman, on par with the screen great, according to the US edition of Rolling Stone magazine.
"Crowe's implosive performance is lethally funny and dangerously scary, the kind of juicy experiment Marlon Brando often tried to shake up a tired genre," wrote critic Peter Travers.
He said he plays the role of Hoffman "flabby, fiftyish and friendly to a fault" with "creative daring. Crowe is the live wire this movie needs".
The glowing Rolling Stone endorsement of the Ridley Scott film will no doubt come as a relief after the leading film industry bible, Variety recently panned Crowe's performance and the film overall as mostly "contrived phoney-baloney".
Rolling Stone counters this account with the claim that in Body of Lies "all of the elements are in place to keep the excitement level high".





Thanks very much, Schiddy!

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