october 21.2005 » just OUt 3g FILM .....▼...... REVIEWS Domino This new film from director Tony Scott (True Romance) and writer Richard Kelly (Don­ nie Darko) is “sort of’ based on the life story of actor Laurence Harvey’s daughter, Domino (Keira Knightley), who turned away from her career as a model and become a bounty hunter in Los Angeles. Domino is not an easy movie to watch. It’s bkxxly and hardcore, almost like a color version of Sin City —quick cutting, multi­ media presentation, overlapping lines and inter­ esting déjà vu with Beverly Hilts, 90210 vets Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green playing them­ selves and Mickey Rourke as Domino’s boss. C+ —Yvonne P. Behrens Good Night, and Good Luck George Clooney’s timely, well-considered and confident directorial follow-up to the auspicious Confessions of a Dangerous Mind recounts—in cinematographer Robert Elswit’s beautifully frank, rerun-evocative black and white—the 1953 media confronta­ tion between television newscaster Edward R. Murrow and witch-hunting anti-Commu- nist Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wis. David Strathairn—supported by a stellar cast including Clooney, Robert Downey Jr. and Patricia Clarkson—is likely to garner awards for his spot-on portrayal of Murrow, and the film balances its deft exploration of the tele­ vision newsroom dynamics of yore with a healthy skepticism (apt, given Clooney’s own eatingout eatingout tube origins) toward the medium’s future dominance. A- —Christopher McQuain North Country In the feisty female tradition of Nt/rma Rae and Silkwood, Charlize Theron plays a single mom who files harassment charges against her sexist male co-workers at a northern Minnesota iron mine. The action is gripping, edgy and infuriating, but it loses credibility in the climac­ tic, over-the-top courtroom scenes. Though W(x>dy Harrelson inadvertently comes off as a total bozo of a lawyer, director Niki Caro (Whale Rider) coaxes terrific, earthy perfonn- ances from her cast. Frances McDormand steals the show as Theron’s witty and ailing friend, and Bob Dylan makes frequent appearances on the soundtrack. A- —Stephen Blair À Tout de Suite Benoît Jacquot (Sade, A Single Girl) directed this French new wave thriller—shot in black arid white and based on actual events—about a Parisian art student (Islid Le Besco) who flees her stifling bourgeois family to join her lover, a MoriKcan gangster, on a cross-continent adventure through Spain, Morocco and Greece. (This will make up for the vacation I couldn’t take this year.) Her breathtaking jour­ ney of self-discovery captures the fear and exhilaration of love on the run. Opens Oct. 21 at Hollyw