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Gravity

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  Sandra Bullock: Carrying a feature film without punching anyone. Sandra Bullock gives an excellent performance in what is one of the films of the year (2013). Cinematography will certainly deliver Gravity an Oscar, and I suspect Bullock will be in line for best actress in both the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. Doctor Ryan Stone (Bullock) is on her first Space Shuttle mission, alongside George Clooney's veteran on his last mission. If that's all there was, that would be a tad boring, so for good measure a mass of space debris destroys the Shuttle, leaving Sandra and George alone in space, trying to survive. There is nothing more that can be said without ruining the film, so tune out now for the spoiler. Precise character exits The timing of characters entering and leaving a film - dying or moving away is exceedingly important. Gravity achieves the masterfully in killing off George Clooney. As an actor he talks too much, being George Clooney - he d