By Rex Reed 3/21/12 10:59am

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Hiddleston and Weisz in an extramarital embrace.

A Deep Blue Sea Nourished With Lovers’ Tears: Rattigan’s Classic Receives Second Silver Screen Treatment

The eloquence, poignancy and intelligence of the great British playwright Terence Rattigan comes to the screen once again in the latest revival of the awkward, brilliant and demanding play The Deep Blue Sea, with Rachel Weisz in the role once created so memorably by Vivien Leigh. It is quirky, dark, much maligned by feminists and too slow for some tastes, but it’s a work worth seeing again, and Ms. Weisz is wonderful in it. Read More

By Andrew Sarris 1/08/01 12:00am

A Sinking Lily Bart and Her Unforgiving Circle

Terence Davies’ The

House of Mirth , from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Edith

Wharton, is one of several end-of-year releases that has made 2000 a better

movie-going year than anyone could have anticipated at the beginning of

December. The best movies, by and large, remain individualized productions that

seldom zoom into Read More