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The UK's prestigious EMPIRE Magazine just chimed in:
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Bullock, though, is the standout in a film where, because of the 3D, quite a lot of things stand out, but the key here is depth, which is where most 3D films fall, ironically enough, flat. If you thought she got her last Oscar just for being popular, this should disabuse you of that notion; in Gravity she delivers a technical performance of strength and grace that never bounces you out of the picture even while you’re wondering how the hell they did it. The Venice public went wild for it, and hopefully the festival will learn from this story of a woman so wrapped up her in herself that she needs to come back down to Earth.
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That’s because Gravity is pretty exceptional, and for once even Clooney’s true movie-star gravitas cannot outshine the technical and human elements of this extraordinary movie. Gravity is the sort of thing you’d think Hollywood wouldn’t make simply because it isn’t possible, not just because its lead character is a woman and there is no plot in the traditional sense. But Alfonso Cuaron’s latest film is quite awe-inspiring in all these departments, plausibly creating a majestic outer-space scenario that actually doesn’t need the 3D treatment to convince. And most of all, it features the first true Oscar-bait performance of the season from Sandra Bullock, who, as the luckless scientist Ryan Stone, finds herself cut adrift from her space station with only the wry Matt Kowalski (Clooney) for company. Now, Bullock has been in race-against-time stuff before, having invented the genre with Speed. But Gravity is a very different beast, racing surprisingly quickly though its curt 90-odd-minute running time and delivering character, emotion and even a dash of philosophy as the doomsday clock counts down.
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Good God.
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. Yeah, I think it's really nice and I like the video, do you think it'll go any higher on the Country Charts?
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