Word: climaxes
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...This is especially important because so many people believed - or perhaps more accurately, made themselves believe - in O.J.'s innocence. Everyone remembers gathering around the television at work to watch the verdict, and then the endless national self-searching over the shocking climax: not the verdict, but the visceral response to the verdict - the white employees gasping while the black employees burst into spontaneous applause...
...Bottom Line: Don’t let the film’s pretensions fool you: “Fur” is a predictable and empty Hollywood vehicle, and by the time Diane slowly shaves the dying Lionel’s body in the film’s ostensible climax, you’ll find yourself realizing that maybe normal isn’t so bad, after all. —Reviewer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...before she died in Rochester in 1985, at 78. She had cultivated her legend, finding new adherents who treated her with the kind of awe she hadn't been granted in decades, and then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered...
Shee lacks the energetic style he displays so well in “Never Gonna Dance” at the beginning and end of Tharp’s piece. Yet at the climax of “Sinatra Suite,” that energy resurfaces with a significant payoff. The piece becomes much more physical, and the two dancers practically force each other around the stage; eventually, though, physicality becomes sensuality, and Shee and Moore come to a beautifully poised equilibrium...
...brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand and your multimillion-dollar stake. But dramatically there's something lacking in a movie climax that needs the hero to be holding higher cards than the villain. Luck is not fate...