The Gold Digger : Cancel This Reservation

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12:00 AM, October 19, 2007 | Comments (0)

Welcome to this year's presentation of the GoldDigger. Although it's our debut, the GoldDigger has been predicting Oscars (albeit in his head) since he was 16. He'd like to thank the academy of editors for this opportunity to stop talking to himself and...

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Cancel This Reservation

Ramin Setoodeh

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Opening in select theaters today is the Oscar-bait movie "Reservation Road." It stars perennial nominees Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connelly, and it's directed by Terry George ("Hotel Rwanda"). The GoldDigger did well in math all the way up to linear algebra, so he likes formulas. The movie's "In the Bedroom" (dead kid, grieving parents) times "House of Sand and Fog" (strangers in the dark, exchanging glances) but it equals a big muddle of melodrama. The GoldDigger thinks it's out of the game and the critics agree. As they say on a certain dating show, "Next."

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