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Apt Pupil (1998)
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At the top of his game, Stephen King has a real gift for mining monsters--zero-at-the-bone horror--out of everyday faces and places. Adapted from a novella in the 1982 collection that also spawned Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil looks at first as if it might draw authentically enlightening terror from the soul-cancer that makes blood relations of a Southern California golden boy (Brad Renfro) and an aging Nazi war criminal (Sir Ian McKellen). Turned on by a high-school course about the Holocaust, Todd Bowden (such a bland handle for this top-of-his-class sociopath!) tracks down Kurt Dussander,...
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Apt Pupil Movie Review by Jarrod  (7/19/2007) |
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'Apt Pupil' is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella that appeared in "Different Seasons", which also contained the stories that inspired The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. Todd Bowden (Renfro), is a high school senior, very likely to be the valedictorian of his graduating class, but he harbors a dark side: an...
(complete Apt Pupil review by Jarrod)
Here we go again. Why is it that people have to rate films on whether or not they are close to the book. Yes, I read prolifically, and I also watch many films. They are separate activities. Sometimes I want to see a movie because I love the book, but I realize that you can't do a book justice in 120 minutes. I bet Herman...
(complete Apt Pupil review by B Movie Ben)
| Apt Pupil Movie Review by Thom (8/5/2008) |
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Now that he's has his fill, for the time being at least, of the superhero genre, director Bryan Singer returns to these roots with his new film, Valkyrie. People likely remember Singer for The Usual Suspects, The X-men films, and what I viewed as the mediocre Superman Returns, but between criminal minds and mutant rights,...
(complete Apt Pupil review by Thom)
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