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Marcy May Marlene with Elizabeth Olsen, the Olsen twins' younger sister. A
talented performer, Olsen can't save this pretentious snoozer. A mixed up
twenty-something escapes from a Manson-type cult and moves in with her
estranged sister and her husband. No plot, no ending and nothing to say. How
this drivel was reviewed positively, or even made, eludes me.
On
the other hand, The Awakening was a fun adult horror movie. This is a complex story about family, repressed memory and creepy
ghosts. In 1921, supernatural debunker Florence Cathcart visits a boys boarding
school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Working with the always
dependable Dominic West, they quickly solve the mystery, only to have another
one come along that's bigger and spookier. Multiple twists and turns with some
good jumpy scares, this is a great gore-less horror flick for grownups. It
doesn't hurt that star Rebecca Hall is a very beautiful woman.
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