General release THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO As was the case with Up in the Air, Clooney shows here that he is at his best without the bells and whistles of high-key theatrics he sells Matt as an everyman who must confront some harsh latter-life lessons involving self-respect, the compromises necessary for family cohesion and that secrets are sometimes best left kept. Complicating matters are his distant daughters, teenager Alex (Shailene Woodley) and tweenager Scottie (Amara Miller), and a major land deal he is negotiating for his wider family. With doctors telling him she has no hope of survival, King is forced to decide whether to inflame the situation or take the higher, infinitely more difficult moral road. After his wife is rendered comatose by a freak skiing accident, family life for lawyer Matt King (George Clooney) is pulled inside out as a long-held secret surfaces. (115 min) M ★★★★ In much the same humanist vein as his brilliant dramedy About Schmidt, director Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, Citizen Ruth) again flexes his deep love of flawed characters who try to maintain dignity in the midst of an irreversible emotional crisis. (Note: The film can be seen in English and Japanese language versions.) Selected release THE DESCENDANTS As well as being entertaining, Arrietty will hopefully point punters to the 1997 film The Borrowers, a very good live-action rendition of the tiny people concept. Traditionally animated - Ghibli appears largely uninterested in digital animation - the film has an attractive pastel allure and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi generates an appreciable sense of danger courtesy of an evil housemaid and a hungry cat.
Arrietty is the tiny teenage girl who has to learn to trust Sho, though her staunch father insists they move now that they have been discovered. Based on The Borrowers novels by Mary Norton and made in 2010, the film tells of Sho, a boy with heart trouble who moves to the country for peace and quiet, but discovers that the crawlspace of his new home is inhabited by a family of tiny people who "borrow" things to live. (93 min) G ★★★ From Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio that regaled us with Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Porco Rosso, comes another charming exercise in surreal whimsy.
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