# 50 million now seems about the norm for a decent player, so even though Arsene Wenger broke the Arsenal transfer record to sign Alexandre Lacazette it was by no means a remarkable bit of transfer news. (justarsenal.com)
It would be difficult, with such an enticing premise, to make a borderline boring movie: this is, alas, what happens with Lovelace in spite of the talent of its cast: an excellent Peter Sarsgaard as the charming monster who violently pimps his wife into pornography and forced prostitution; in the title role, a pleasant Amanda Seyfried, who seesaws between perkiness and outraged melancholia; a remarkable bit by James Franco as a lascivious Hugh Hefner (Playboy's publisher). (sensesofcinema.com)
(Credit to Susan Hill, who authored the 1983 novel upon which the movie is based; and Jane Goldman for the screenplay; and, perhaps most of all, to the visual effects artists who make this remarkable bit of unreality look so astoundingly real.) (dallasfilmnow.com)