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REVIEW: Natalie Portman Strikes Out As The Other Woman

Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment -- a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it. So writer-director Don Roos casting her in his new film, The Other Woman, sounds subversive, given that his career includes The Opposite of Sex and other mocking takes on melodrama; he's Pedro Almodovar with low blood pressure. You might suppose Roos would find a way to comment on her moist-eyed vivacity. (You'd be hard-pressed to find another actress with such natural camera rapport who still commits so fervently; she makes the contestants on American Idol seem like Dick Cheney.)

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