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Article: FILM STUDIES: Woody Allen's back " and he's grown up at last
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2005
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Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) has been a pretty good tennis
player, if never able to break clear of that mob of quarter-
finalists " he's more a Tim Henman than a Roger Federer. What does
that entail? Well, something in a Henman has to get used to
disappointing the enormous sentimental support that rallies behind
him every June. And Wilton is weak. We sense this before we really
know him. He is a tennis player like Guy Haines (Farley Granger) in
Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, a film that guessed the good-
looking guy with the classy forehand might just be capable of murder,
or thinking about it, if you pressured his backhand.
And so begins Match Point, maybe the most cool, ...