It's a movie with the dream logic so often missed in last year's "Inception," where a closet door may lead to a corridor of 48-inch mains in a pumping station or the green grass of Yankee Stadium.
It's also a movie where an actress playing a dancer dances credibly, and her character's success is reported on an inside page in the Arts and Leisure section, not in screaming headlines. Blunt, who elsewhere sings and plays the cello, may have crossed a line, becoming too talented to be contained by just one reality.
And "The Adjustment Bureau" offers another seemingly effortless performance from Matt Damon, a box-office success who has evolved into a movie star while maintaining his presence as an actor. Like this movie, Damon doesn't put a foot wrong.
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