魅力四射4：一鼓作气

　　影片改编自菲利普·罗斯2008年出版的同名小说，故事围绕上世纪50年代美国一名犹太裔男青年马科斯·梅思纳的苦闷与彷徨展开。

　　委内瑞拉男星埃德加·拉米雷斯在片中出演著名的巴拿马拳手罗伯特·杜兰，而罗伯特德尼罗饰演他的训练师，同样很有名气的雷·阿赛尔。
　　上个世纪70年代，杜兰是拳击界最可怕的人物。野性的眼神、黑色的头发、凶恶的战斗作风，使得杜兰在轻量级比赛中是个让对方感到恐怖的人物。从1972 年到1979年，杜兰在拳坛上势不可挡。他在至少三个级别的比赛中获得过冠军。这位巴拿马拳手是世界上唯一一位跨越五个不同十年还在战斗的拳手。杜兰2002年退休时已经51岁了。本片围绕杜兰与另外一位著名拳手舒格·雷·伦纳德（Sugar Ray Leonard）的一场传奇之战展开。1980年11月25日，这两位拳手在路易斯安那州第二次相逢，而在此7个月前两人的第一次比赛中，杜兰险胜伦纳德，尽管那场比赛很悬，但是场外裁判一致判定杜兰胜出。在第二场对峙中，本来结局会大不一样，但是杜兰在第八轮比赛中队裁判说出“放弃”，让伦纳德获得了本场比赛的胜利。从此，杜兰在本土成为最不受欢迎的拳手，此后他花了很多年时间来重建自己的声誉。

　　好莱坞著名编剧达尔顿·特朗勃的传记片。
　　特朗勃上世纪30年代进入好莱坞当编剧，奉献过《罗马假日》、《出埃及记》、《斯巴达克斯》、《约翰尼上战场》等经典作品。在荣誉背后，特朗勃的职业生涯实际上非常坎坷，他在40年代末遭到非美活动委员会(HUAC)的迫害，被米高梅于1950年解雇，并蹲了大牢。出狱后他被政府列进黑名单，一度无法工作，特朗勃就借用他人名字创作剧本。他曾凭借《罗马假日》与《勇敢的人》夺下两座最佳编剧的小金人，但当时剧本的作者署的都不是他的名字。直到1960年，特朗勃才走出迫害，他的编剧才华才得以重见天日。

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.
　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)
　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.
　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).
　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　影片根据法国的一个真故事改编，1982年7月的一天，男主得知了女儿的死讯。他的女儿只有14岁了，在去世之前在德国和妈妈、继父一起度假。不过很快，她的死亡状况出现了疑点。生父为了女儿的真实死因跟法国法院和德国检察院纠缠了30年，但德国一直不肯引渡女儿的继父到法国进行审判，最后还是生父把他绑架到法国，才得以审判。

　　一只小猴子因飞机坠毁独自落入亚马逊丛林中心，他要在丛林中学会生存和保护自己，他需要适应在这未知的世界，神奇的大自然充满精彩，也充斥着敌意……
　　作为失事飞机的幸存者，他是幸运的，但他还是要独自面对大自然的考验：与食肉动物、有毒的植物以及亚马逊丛林的绿色屏障作斗争……