Dern’s Prize Grab; Italian Beauty; Shia LaBeouf: Movies
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In Alexander Payne’s heartfelt, if jerry-rigged, “Nebraska,” an old man’s newfound childlike wonder is attributed to nothing so brutal as Alzheimer’s or years of hard-drinking.
“He just believes what people tell him,” says his son, with the sort of deadpan whimsy that marks (and mars) so much of Payne’s work, from “About Schmidt” to “The Descendants.”