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Originally posted by baltassoc
I'm not usually one to post movie reviews, but I saw Garden State this weekend and was very impressed.
Zach Braff was very good, then the ending credits rolled and I found out he wrote and directed it. Outstanding.
Natalie Portman looked great doing her slightly-off-kilter-engenue thing, and turning in her best performance BY FAR since The Professional.
The movie as a whole has a Hal Hartley in New Jersey feel, simultaneously enchanted, bemused and horrified by American suburbia. The audience feels both connected with the characters yet distant.
Definitely worth a watch, although its the type of movie that could wait for video (no special effects, etc.).
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Agree in spades. Did it end the way I would have ended it? Perhaps not. But it's kind of a companion piece to Ghost World and Lost in Translation (was Scarlett not available for this one too?), and it's smart, funny and authentic. Well done, Scrubs-boy.
