January 17,2003 »
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S c h m id t
Jack Nicholson turns in another award-
worthy performance in this hilarious yet
poignant dramedy by writer/director Alexan
der Payne ( Election ) about a widower who
tries to convince his daughter (Hope Davis)
not to marry a loser (Dermot Mulroney)
while he fights off the advances of the
fiance’s hippie mother (Kathy Bates).
—Jim Radosta
A d a p t a t io n
The guys behind Being John Malkovich
have done it again. Nicolas Cage portrays
real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who
struggles to adapt a book by Susan Orlean
(Meryl Streep) about orchid thief John Laroche
(Chris Cooper). In steps his twin, Donald, a
hack who ruins the script by inserting the lame
gimmicks he learns from a belligerent teacher
(Brian Cox). Pure genius.
—JR
C a t c h M e if Y o u C a n
This breezy biopic tells the
fascinating story of ’60s con man Frank Abag-
nale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio, mercifully clean-cut
after his scruffy appearance in Gangs of New
York) and the FBI agent he eludes (Tom Hanks,
thankfully tapping into his vast talent as a char
acter actor). Director Steven Spielberg seems to
have his mojo back; maybe that Goldmember
cameo did the trick?
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shall has pre
viously done
TV, but this
ought to
secure his spot
in Hollywood.
— Lisa Bradshaw
What's popped
and what's flopped,
in a theator neap you.
NARC
Joe Carnahan wrote and directed this tight
drama about two morally ambiguous police offi
cers (Jason Patric and Ray Liotta, both excellent)
investigating the murder of a fellow cop. Strong
performances, shocking twists and uneasy
answers keep the familiar territory captivating.
-JR
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It’s hard to go wrong
when you put Catherine
Zeta-Jones, Renée Zell
weger and the bold and
brassy Queen Latifah in
such close proximity.
Make the first two
smarmy, sultry murderesses
and the latter their brassy,
busty prison warden, and
you’ve got a hit on your
hands even without the
perfectly adapted Broad
way score and a refreshing
ly hilarious Richard Gere
as the sleazy lawyer. Direc-
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Writer/director Douglas McGrath (Emma)
whittles the Charles Dickens classic down to a
simple two-hour treat about a charming young
man (Charlie Hunnam of the U.K. Queer as
Folk) who befriends a disabled orphan (Jamie
Bell of Billy Elliot). Homoerotic subtext aside, the
cast is full of “family" (Nathan Lane and Alan
Cumming) and “friends” (Barry Humphries, aka
Dame Edna).
-JR
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Asia Argento, daughter of famed goremeister
Dario, makes a strong showing as crazed star
l Anna Battista, dipping in and out of a series of
dreamy, sometimes nightmarish, demimondes as
she promotes her international epic, Cleopatra’s
Death. A highlight is an unexpected, red-hot les
bian tryst, but don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
— Gary M orris
25 th H o u r
Even when he’s not directing his own script,
old habits die hard for Spike Lee. He injects a
series of distractions— obnoxious editing,
unnecessary 9/11 references and a racist, homo-
phobic tirade against New Yorkers— in this oth
erwise disturbing drama about a yuppie
drug dealer (Edward Norton) experi
encing his last day of freedom before
serving a seven-year jail sentence.
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