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Go in winter and you may see drifts of spring flowers blooming in the wake of the sparse rains that make it over the snow-dusted Panamint Mountains in the west.
For much of the first hour, Redgrave's Clarissa Dalloway drifts around a sunny, post-World War I London, talking excitedly of a party to take place at her home that evening, exchanging formal pleasantries with various aristocrats, and moving in and out of her memories.
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
There's a thin line between period acting and overacting, and more than once McElhone drifts over it.
Even as a great deal of the "top God" discussion drifts into remote realms of cosmology, much of the "my God" discussion becomes ever more individualized.