Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think again. Lee Fields, known as "Little J.B." to his friends "throughout the global funk community," has made a valiant effort to resurrect what he considers the fallen genre of "rough, nasty and genuine" '70s funk in this album. What the album lacks in musical talent (the band and the...
Sleepwalking through yet another movie, Arquette apparently thinks we'll write off as oh-so-nourish her flat, "understated" delivery; she also misguidedly subscribes to the Uma Thurman "the more tired you look, the sexier you must be" school of seduction. She doesn't play her character's kooky quirks...
Speaking of easy gags: Don Johnson, banking on a Burt Reynolds inability to covert our knowledge of his washed-up career into a slimy on-screen persona (what this implies about our judgment of people and stars is somewhat disturbing). Unfortunately, Johnson's acting skills aren't quite up to...
What can you do? This is a film where Arquette's character does "secret" surveillance for murder planning while wearing a highly reflective, marathon-runner-type foil-warp dress.
But I give Joffe the benefit of the doubt: enough points to a very bitter, saddening satire behind the entertainment, particularly the film's wrap-up, which takes the idea of a know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests...