The Vicious Kind (2009)
Directed by Lee Toland Krieger
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
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If the far less tested Lee Toland Krieger — who followed up his sour debut The Vicious Kind with the wittiest and most luminous of recent rom-coms, Celeste and Jesse Forever — fares better, it’s partly because he sets his sights lower.
Director Lee Toland Krieger, whose previous films The Vicious Kind and Celeste & Jesse Forever displayed both an elegant sense of atmosphere and focused performances, has fun jumping among the decades, and he does a solid job keeping the tone just playful enough that we don’t ask too too many questions of the silly premise.
A dab hand at invigorating conventional material with storytelling smarts and strong performances (“Celeste & Jesse Forever,” “The Vicious Kind”), helmer Lee Toland Krieger elicits a moving central turn from Blake Lively as a woman for whom eternal youth turns out to be a decidedly mixed blessing — one that plays out in ways both poignant and preposterous, sometimes simultaneously, over the course of her 100-plus years on Earth.
With "The Age of Adaline," director Lee Toland Krieger ("Celeste and Jesse Forever," "The Vicious Kind") is building a resume as the go-to guy for unusual romances.