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Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Jeremy Irons and Liv Tyler
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By Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

At 19, Liv Tyler has been a daughter to two rock legends (she called Todd Rundgren Dad until she was 10, then learned that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler is her real father), the center of a feeding frenzy in Cannes, the star of a Bernardo Bertolucci movie, and, according to Tom Hanks, ''the oldest 18-year-old I've ever encountered.''

So much life experience; so little that comes through on screen. Tyler is that rare creature who is maturing as an actress without seeming to gain in finesse. She's starred in six films to date, and while at her worst she's a pouty-lipped, dead-voiced blank, at her more recent best, unexpectedly rich nuances can float up through the artless perfection of that face.

Stealing Beauty is downright rickety — a coming-of-sexual-age drama on a par with the soft-core '70s Euro-dreck they show after midnight on Cinemax. The fact that it's directed by certified film visionary Bertolucci is even more depressing. C+


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Posted Jul 17, 2008

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