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127 Hours

One (if not THE) best films of the year, The Pickford Cinema is proud and excited to feature 127 Hours, a film we think people will be talking about for a long time to come. "Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is a true-life adventure that turns into a one-man disaster movie" and the darker it gets, the more enthralling it becomes. Boyle is the floridly intense pop-poetic stylist who made Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting, and though it would be accurate to call him a fabulist, here, in a change of pace, he summons all of his visual zap to tell the story of what happened to Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, as authentically as possible. The trick of the movie (which comes out Nov. 5) is that it knows that the real adventure is what's going on in Aron's head." EW "But 127 Hours a chronicle of accident and determination, is nearly flawless. Mr. Franco's goofball energy connects the viewer to the character almost instantly, and Mr. Boyle's speedy, jumpy style sends us out into the desert on a wave of caffeine and rock & roll. Aron is hardly one for rapt Wordsworthian contemplation of nature; his romanticism, though deep, is sensual and hedonistic rather than quietly reverent." A.O. Scott, New York Times