Chicago – From the very beginning of her screen career, Olivia Thirlby has specialized in playing youthful seductresses intent on jump-starting their male partners’ sexual coming-of-age. She exuded megawatt allure in everything from David Gordon Green’s “George Washington” to Brett Ratner’s memorable segment in “New York, I Love You.”
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Yet she received her best role to date in Jonathan Levine’s overlooked 2008 romance, “The Wackness,” in which she played a teen who agrees to go steady with a pot-dealing virgin, but ends up being repelled by his post-coital affections. To her, sex is just sex, though the intimacy she freely grants proves to have enormous repercussions on the mind, heart and nether regions of her inexperienced lover. It’s this character who shares the most striking similarities with Martine, Thirlby’s anti-heroine in director Ry Russo-Young’s diverting yet problematic new film.
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Rating: 2.5/5.0
Yet she received her best role to date in Jonathan Levine’s overlooked 2008 romance, “The Wackness,” in which she played a teen who agrees to go steady with a pot-dealing virgin, but ends up being repelled by his post-coital affections. To her, sex is just sex, though the intimacy she freely grants proves to have enormous repercussions on the mind, heart and nether regions of her inexperienced lover. It’s this character who shares the most striking similarities with Martine, Thirlby’s anti-heroine in director Ry Russo-Young’s diverting yet problematic new film.
Read Matt Fagerholm’s full review...
- 11/9/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Martine (Olivia Thirlby) is a 23-year old artist who has traveled from New York to Los Angeles to work on the sound design of her new video art project. She is delivered to the home of her audio engineer -- Peter (John Krasinski) -- by a predatory male who clearly misinterprets Martine's innocent in flight friendliness as an open invitation to screw in the airport parking garage. John resides with his wife (Rosemarie De Witt), Julie, whom we meet during one of her many uncomfortable therapy sessions with a client (Justin Kirk) who unabashedly has a crush on his psychiatrist. From this point onward, it is pretty obvious where Nobody Walks is going. Every male we meet will make a sexual advance towards a questionably flirtatious (or incredibly naive) female. Even Julie's daughter -- Kolt (India Ennenga) -- finds herself in awkward, sexually-charged situations. But, then again, some of the...
- 10/17/2012
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Directed By: Ry Russo-Young
Written By: Lena Dunham, Ry Russo Young
Cast: Olivia Thirlby, John Krasinski, Rosemarie de Witt
Nobody Walks takes the audience on an elegant whirl through a few days in the lives of a perpetually superior and self-satisfied Los Angeles family. Their world is too smug and secure ever to be rocked, so it only teeters, before speedily righting itself again. The story is too slender to sustain even the film's 85 minute running time, but there are some moments of poignancy, thanks mainly to strong performances from the stars.
The cause of the disequilibrium is Martine (Olivia Thirlby), a young visual artist who rolls up at the gorgeous hillside home of Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt) and Peter (John Krasinski). A mutual friend in New York has suggested that Peter, an accomplished sound designer, helps Martine with the soundtrack for her installation art film. It's possible that this unseen...
Written By: Lena Dunham, Ry Russo Young
Cast: Olivia Thirlby, John Krasinski, Rosemarie de Witt
Nobody Walks takes the audience on an elegant whirl through a few days in the lives of a perpetually superior and self-satisfied Los Angeles family. Their world is too smug and secure ever to be rocked, so it only teeters, before speedily righting itself again. The story is too slender to sustain even the film's 85 minute running time, but there are some moments of poignancy, thanks mainly to strong performances from the stars.
The cause of the disequilibrium is Martine (Olivia Thirlby), a young visual artist who rolls up at the gorgeous hillside home of Julie (Rosemarie DeWitt) and Peter (John Krasinski). A mutual friend in New York has suggested that Peter, an accomplished sound designer, helps Martine with the soundtrack for her installation art film. It's possible that this unseen...
- 10/6/2012
- by Karina Wilson
- Planet Fury
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