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".
WE LOVE YOU, PETER!! Oh, I mean RUSSSSEEEEELLLL!! 
Woooohoooo! 
Have I mentioned he looks so mighty foine with that suit? 
Thank you!! 
Woooohoooo!! 
I will swoon with joy for sure. 
Perver
He was so slim when he played Jimmy Braddock
(around 78-81 kgs if I'm not mistaken), but he had to do that due to the depression era setting where Jim's weight was actually out of the heavyweight
contender's rule. He looks fine now, no doubt. But a few kilos less would just PERFECT! 
Hail the Sherriff of Nottingham! 
He said Russell is tremendously entertaining in
this movie. He said it's one of those deals where you can't wait to get back to see what he's up to and he thinks that's because he's a
great actor. 
