The Descendants User Reviews

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If movies provide the ultimate escape, the success of writer-director Alexander Payne raises some questions. His films depict the frustrations of life through a witty, but unapologetically honest, lens. Election admitted that the selfish prevail over the selfless. The two men in Sideways sipped fine, aged wine when their own ...

"Paradise can go fuck itself."---Alexander Payne is slowly circling his perfect film, in terms of his style of filmmaking and storytelling. With each subsequent film, he gets closer in one respect or the other. They’re each strong movies in their own right, but never hit the mark entirely- they’re always ...

Each year that George Clooney stars in a film tends to be one of his finest performances, I mean last year we have The American and Up in the Air which was nominated in the Academy Awards. It's pretty obvious that any movie that Clooney stars in will undoubtedly be ...

Oscar season is finally upon us and with it comes a plethora of 'Oscar bait' films who all waited quietly through the explosion and cliche filled summer blockbuster season for their time to shine. 'Oscar bait' films can tend to be hit or miss, some of them turn out to ...

The Descendants is a great film. Not a perfect one, but a great one.The story (based on a book and written/directed by About Schmidt and Sideways’ Alexander Payne) has two main plotlines, ones which do eventually converge. The first is the protagonist (a middle-aged, financially-successful lawyer)’s attempts to come to ...

AboutA wealthy land-owner Matt King (George Clooney) struggles to keep his 10 year old daughter, Scottie (Amara Miller) under control following the tragic boating accident of his now coma-stricken wife Elizabeth. Deciding he needs help, he brings home his hostile teenage daughter Alex (Shailene Woodley), who drops a huge bombshell ...

Before I start my review, I just wanted to give a little intro of where I saw the movie. My wife and I just spent the weekend in southwest Michigan at a B&B as part of a Living Social deal. Also a part of this deal were two tickets to ...

The Descendants turned out much differently then I had anticipated. To be honest, more then a little word of mouth, I really knew nothing about this film going in. My knowledge was limited to just knowing it was another Clooney movie, more or less.The Descendants starts off interestingly enough, with ...