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...Cusack balance each other well, although Arnold tends to overdo man of his scenes. While they successfully show suburban parenting in all its zany glory, Cusack's more understated style is often overpowered by Arnold's persistent over action and insistence on finding as many ways as possible to bludgeon Grant's character is every scene they share...
Sure, partly. This is a commercial novel, and if you have to bludgeon readers to get their attention, well, that's show biz. But the author has more to tell. A succession of interleaved flashbacks gives a strange family history, seen through a camera's cold eye. Through happenstance, her grandfather, an American migrant to Mexico, became a photographer in the early days of the art and specialized in elaborate portraits of dead children in confirmation finery. A meningitis plague brought him prosperity. He was a journeyman, but his son, her father, became a famed photographic artist, whose morbid specialty...
Three murderous drug dealers (Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Beach, Cynda Williams) blast and bludgeon their way from Los Angeles to rural Arkansas and a face-off against a hick sheriff (Bill Paxton). Tracing a similar itinerary, ONE FALSE MOVE has snaked across the country. Too pensive for the action houses and way too violent for the croissant crowd, the movie has earned many critics' indulgences. It does have some B-movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from...
...would start climbing again to meet a renewed threat from Russia," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow. Of course, Russia is not the West's to win or lose, any more than China was 40 years ago when the question "Who lost China?" was used as a political bludgeon. Nevertheless, most experts argue that the right kinds of aid can make a significant difference to the outcome -- mostly by proving to the Russians that they are no longer enemies and are not alone in their efforts to remake themselves in a Western image...
...maintain an uneasy peace. They take an occasional chunk out of me while I'm in the shower, and I in return do my best to bludgeon them out of existence...