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in a theater near you.
Songs of H o p e .
Protest and
Inspiration
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John Waters reclaims his king-of-crudity
title with this zestfully tacky gross-out come
dy. When a freak accident transforms a
hored Baltimore housewife into a sex addict,
the triggered chain of events culminates in a
showdown between the city’s prudes and its
swingers, with almost any conceivable sexual
deviation celebrated— in detail— along the
way. The film is both raunchy and affection
ate, gross and gtxxJ-natured— in other words,
a guaranteed gtxxJ time.
— Christopher M cQuain
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Cutie pie Katie Holmes plays Samantha,
a first-year college student who happens to
he the presidents daughter. Sam just wants
to fit in, hut her classmates treat her like a
circus freak, and she gets entangled in a
romance that the tabloids eat up like ice
cream. The corny and witless opening scenes
do not k xle well for the movie. But First
Daughter gets into an enjoyable, though pre
dictable, grcx>ve once our prim heroine starts
trashing it up at frat parties and sleazy bars.
— Stephen Blair
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“The clouds” might be a better place to
spend time than at this tired wartime *
romance. Director John Duigan pulls out all
the tricks familiar to readers of Harlequin
romances and polishes them quite nicely—
the movie looks great— but underneath it’s
still just a contemporary version of a cliche-
drenched old-time Hollywixxl “women’s pic
ture.” Charlize Theron is the prx>r little rich
girl who glides through endless romances
(including a hot lesbian affair with Penelope
Cruz) in occupied Paris. Sad to say, the actors
lack chemistry. They huff and puff but ulti
mately can’t breathe life into this trite tale.
— Gary Morris
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<3^ <5> H ero
In ancient China, a mysterious assassin
arrives at an emperor’s palace. His inten
tions— to aid the ruler...or to destroy
him?— are revealed through subjective,
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Rashómori' like flashbacks. Director Yimou
Zhang ( Raise the Red Lantern), evidently an
obsessive cinematic perfectionist, has made a
film that approaches greatness. An inimitable
vibrancy emanates from every luscious, colorful
frame. Hero is a must-see.
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T he M otorcycle D iaries
G ael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También)
plays the young Argentine Ernesto “C h e”
Guevera in a film that explores the ideologi
cal origins of the much-venerated revolution
ary martyr. Director Walter Salles, working
from autobiographies by Che and his close
friend, Alberto Granado (played in the film
by Rodrigo De la Serna), brings us the two
friends’ coming-of-age road trip through
South America, where bourgeois young
Ernesto first glimpses the People’s struggle.
Salles unequivocally romanticizes Che, leav
ing the film long on (admittedly quite lovely)
atmosphere and short on facts, but it is
supremely acted and, at the very least, an
undeniably gorgeous and revealing travelogue
o f the continent to our south.
— CM
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Why are British zombie movies so dam
gcxxJ? Shaun tries to keep his relationship
together with his girlfriend, his slobby flatmate
and his clueless mother, even as England dis
solves around him into a land of walking
undead. Sounds silly, but this movie is probably
the funniest and most heartfelt of the year. See
it before it becomes the cult classic it’s destined
to he.
— Andy Mangels
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The Motorcycle Diaries is short on facts
about Che Cuevera
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It’s 1939, and gutsy woman reporter Polly
Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) and her some
time paramour, dashing fighter-plane pilot
Sky Captain (Jude Law), must save the world
from a mad scientist’s apocalyptic scheme.
Sky Captain has its moments— the romance
is of the snappy, unsentimental, screwball-
comedy variety, and first-time director
Kerry Conran uses cutting-edge
technology to create some memor
ably luscious visuals— but it
finally succumbs to dull
action-movie clichés.
—CM
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