Give Bill the Oscar

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2004)

I have to admit, this one has grown on me. If Bill Murray got the nod, it would go a little ways to restoring my respect for the Academy, which in recent years has just seemed to be begging for the tagline "giving a little gold statue to mediocre movies and over-emoting actors every year". Murray doesn't do much in this movie - and that's the point. He's perfect as a character who, the audience can assume, is probably very funny and charismatic when he wants to be but is just, at the point where we see him in the film, tired, lost, and lonely. "Understated" is good acting, too.