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Focus Features Just Nabbed Sam Mendes for a Two-Year Pact. Is Their Confidence Misplaced?

For a guy who won an Oscar for his first feature, Sam Mendes is difficult to pin down. Since that auspicious debut, American Beauty, he’s made a series of more-or-less respected movies that never quite took off: Road to Perdition, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road. By the time Away We Go opened earlier this month to the harshest reviews of his career (Hey, our guy liked it!), some observers wondered aloud how much longer he could really be considered an elite name in prestige moviemaking. ...  read more