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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Mission Impossible III Directed by J.J. Abrams. Written Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Abrams. Cinematography by Daniel Mindel. Music by Michael Giacchino. Starring Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russell. Paramount Pictures, 2006. R. 126 minutes. Is Tom Cruise even human at this point? Does anybody care? Cruise's roles fall into two classifications: the flawed idealist of Risky Business and Jerry Maguire and the everyday hero of A Few Good Men and Minority Report. The trouble is that since 1999's Magnolia, Cruise has been working the hero trade almost exclusively, and the results are less than sympathetic. His characters resemble human beings, but they leave you feeling cold. They don't die, but they don't suffer convincingly, so I can only reach the conclusion that Tom Cruise is now a robot. Read more...
Art School Confidential Directed by Terry Zwigoff. Written by Daniel Clowes. Starring Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Ethan Suplee, Matt Keeslar, Anjelica Huston and Jim Broadbent. Sony Pictures Classics, 2006. R. 102 minutes. In 2001, director Terry Zwigoff (Crumb) and comic artist Daniel Clowes adapted Clowes' story Ghost World into a pitch-perfect movie about a girl too clever for her own existence. As drifting best friends Enid and Rebecca, Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson were a delicate, precarious pair, all clunky boots, emotional detachment and ironic ensembles. Ghost World looked like the comic book it came from and successfully captured an elusive feeling that exists somewhere between the images and the text in books by Clowes, Adrian Tomine and Craig Thompson, to name a few. Read more...
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