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Saturday, 23 February 2008 |
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In the Best Film category at this year's Oscars, Jason Reitman's "Juno," a pseudo-indie comedy about a pregnant teenager, is a bit like a startlingly colorful blowfish in a pool of graceful sharks. The rest of the field consists of art film heavyweights about grim, lonely men struggling against nature or each other. "Juno" is reassuring, light and its title heroine is, comparatively speaking, a model of wholesome, if occasionally naive, sanity. And, brace yourself for the least surprising (or perhaps most, considering that this is the Oscars) plot spoiler of all – nobody dies. |