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  1. THE KING’S SPEECH. A movie’s movie. Deliberate and calculated, visually gorgeous and smooth. But somehow, it feels a bit… removed? Is that the right word? The King’s Speech is sort of an A-student, movie-wise. Its cinematography is just the right amount of striking, its dialogue the right amount of quick, and its got just the right amount of crowd-pleasing emotional goo. But somehow the careful control - which I usually love! see: the coen bros. - turns stifling, and THE KING’S SPEECH comes off as weirdly airless and taxidermied and charmless. It’s like a movie that’s been made with an algorithm, and that gives a lot of its outward plusses a sort of clamminess. Also: the pop psychology. My gooooood the pop psychology. Leave some for the rest of Hollywood, guys.  ASIDE THAT DOESN’T FIT ANYWHERE: And, yeah, Colin Firth is great at Acting and both he and Geoffrey Rush act their pants off, true, but really? Helena Bonham Carter steals it. She’s got this wonderful, natural, unpracticed zip and glow to her that’s off-the-cuff and really the only spark and charm in this fembot of a movie.  THE KING’S SPEECH. A movie’s movie. Deliberate and calculated, visually gorgeous and smooth. But somehow, it feels a bit… removed? Is that the right word? The King’s Speech is sort of an A-student, movie-wise. Its cinematography is just the right amount of striking, its dialogue the right amount of quick, and its got just the right amount of crowd-pleasing emotional goo. But somehow the careful control - which I usually love! see: the coen bros. - turns stifling, and THE KING’S SPEECH comes off as weirdly airless and taxidermied and charmless. It’s like a movie that’s been made with an algorithm, and that gives a lot of its outward plusses a sort of clamminess. Also: the pop psychology. My gooooood the pop psychology. Leave some for the rest of Hollywood, guys.  ASIDE THAT DOESN’T FIT ANYWHERE: And, yeah, Colin Firth is great at Acting and both he and Geoffrey Rush act their pants off, true, but really? Helena Bonham Carter steals it. She’s got this wonderful, natural, unpracticed zip and glow to her that’s off-the-cuff and really the only spark and charm in this fembot of a movie. 
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    THE KING’S SPEECH. A movie’s movie. Deliberate and calculated, visually gorgeous and smooth. But somehow, it feels a bit… removed? Is that the right word? The King’s Speech is sort of an A-student, movie-wise. Its cinematography is just the right amount of striking, its dialogue the right amount of quick, and its got just the right amount of crowd-pleasing emotional goo. But somehow the careful control - which I usually love! see: the coen bros. - turns stifling, and THE KING’S SPEECH comes off as weirdly airless and taxidermied and charmless. It’s like a movie that’s been made with an algorithm, and that gives a lot of its outward plusses a sort of clamminess. Also: the pop psychology. My gooooood the pop psychology. Leave some for the rest of Hollywood, guys. 

    ASIDE THAT DOESN’T FIT ANYWHERE: And, yeah, Colin Firth is great at Acting and both he and Geoffrey Rush act their pants off, true, but really? Helena Bonham Carter steals it. She’s got this wonderful, natural, unpracticed zip and glow to her that’s off-the-cuff and really the only spark and charm in this fembot of a movie. 

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