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Adding Up
While the narrative focus of Spike Lee's 25th Hour is Monty's last night, the film is also about survival in more abstract and concrete senses
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A Steady Bridge Between Good and Evil
As a middle film, that is The Two Towers' primary function -- to hold steady and hint at what's to come
A Film that Keeps the Beat
In this world, the football game provides a useful context for halftime, when the show really starts
No Ordinary People
It's hard to take your eyes off Warren Schmidt. Partly this is because he's played by Jack Nicholson and partly because he's so utterly, calculatedly ordinary
It’s All About Me, Really
Jennifer Lopez can't forget to stay real. To her, it's like breathing. Even if what's real for her and what's real for you aren't exactly the same thing, the J. Lo version clearly has its appeal
Characters by the Book
Much like that first glance at Delia, Personal Velocity gives good surface, courtesy of Rebecca Miller's spare, observational prose
Life, the Script
Resplendently self-referential, Adaptation careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation
Love, Lost in Space
Earlier versions of Solaris are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire. This version has a splendid, smooth-surfaced austerity
Over the Top
Jinx brings into Bond's consummately white-guy heroic world a new possibility: a black woman who can do anything you can imagine him doing
Surface Damage
Far From Heaven concerned with reading and feeling, with your positioning between text and context, between meaning and desire
Exploring the Darkness
That Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets takes on race and race differences is surely commendable. That it piles up a lot of episodic enchantments and digital wonders is disappointing
Keeping It Real
8 Mile is about making it, about beating back the meanies, about individual gumption. When Rabbit assures his mom that he's going to ''do it on my own,'' she nods sagely, ''You know Rabbit, I think that's the best way.'' Hooray team
Going Places
Real Women Have Curves has more going on than rousing ''humanism'' or a collection of coming-of-age clich's
Mideast Blues
Jimmy Carter, a new PBS documentary, shows what Jimmy Carter still matters
Funny Guy
Comedian is an interesting film, whether or not one claims membership to the must-be-home-by-11-to-catch-the Soup-Nazi-episode-again camp