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w w C ity of G od
T his series of vignettes from
the hoods of Brazil is too long,
beyond violent and overpopulated
with characters hut rem ains w orth seeing
for the young cast’s strong perform ances as
well as the audacious visual flair displayed
hy directors Katia Lund and Fernando
Meirelles. T h e academy must have
thought so, anyway— it’s been rereleased
due to four O scar nom inations.
— Jim Radosta
D irty D ancing :
H avana N ights
Btx)kish, uptight Katey M iller (Romola
G arai) and her family visit 1958 H avana,
where C ubans spend their prerevolution
tim e m am boing all over town. Katey would
love to he humping and grinding like her
new pals (m ost notably sexy Javier, played
hy Y Tu Mamá También’s Diego Luna), hut
parents and peers w on’t let her! Every time
this awful but somehow w atchable sequel to
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Dirty Dancing threatens
to become serious, it
collapses into the
Katey Questions:
Will the w hite girl
win the big dance
contest? Will she fuck
Javier?
— Gary Marris
T he F og of W ar
only if you’re really hungry
You can sense the weight of the world in the
weary eyes of fonner Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara, the subject of this riveting Oscar-nomi
nated documentary from Errol Morris (The Thin
Blue Line). Having played a pivotal role in World
War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, the
octogenarian has a wealth of surprisingly progressive
iasights on mistakes made and lessons learned.
-J R
< ^<£^><^ M iracle
Saddled with an insipid title and the Disney
moniker, you don’t get much more than you bar
gained for from this feel-g(xxl flick starring Kurt
Russell as the coach of the 1980 U.S. Olympic
hockey team that (miraculously!) heat the Sovi
ets and brought home gold during a turbulent
peritxl of recent world history. But it’s really damn
entertaining and, yes, I got misty. G o team!
— Lisa Bradshaw
Will cute Cuban Javier woo the
uptight American blonde in time
to win the big dance contest?
'iour euess is as eood a s ours!
M onster
Charlize Theron handily won the Golden
Globe for her lead role in this gritty true-life story
about queer serial killer Aileen Wuomos, a prosti-
good effort, pass the salt
<£> mmmm, tasty!
get the big tub o’ com
tute who murdered six men 13 years ago in Flori
da. Writer/director Patty Jenkins manages to
combine multiple social commentaries relatively
free from judgment while eliciting superb perfor
mances from Theron, Bruce Dem as her only
real friend and Christina Ricci as her partner—
who alternately loves and uses her.
— LB
T ouching
the
This excmciating documentary gives us a
front-row seat to a near-deadly 1985 mountain
climb in Pem. Using re-enactm ents as well as
intense interviews with survivors Joe Simpson
and Simon Yates, director Kevin Macdonald
(One Day in September) cranks up the
drama while effectively conveying the
thrill that drives these people to put
their posteriors in peril.
-J R
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