Word: climaxes
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...film's climax, the Draft Riots engulf the city as Bill and Amsterdam line up for their final face-off--a Celtic clan skirmish that has little to do with the larger atrocities. The point may be that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
...climax of the debate came when Pappin took the floor to offer his own views to the council...
...European press. The Times led with discussion of pre-emptive border controls and precautionary measures to defend Michelangelo’s David but faltered over the anti-climactic facts of the day. There were no arrests; there was no “serious violence.” Pairing anti-climax with sarcasm, the Times reports: “[a female protestor] used eyeliner to paint Y-like shapes on the brows of friends. They worried aloud that the result looked more like Mercedes symbols than peace signs.” Other images are similarly choice: naive peaceniks partying in Florence...
...Crazed has elements that Waiting lacked: a recognizable plot with a recognizable, powerful climax. But whereas Waiting gained passion from the slow-burn love of its main characters, The Crazed is forced to rely on too-familiar history. This time around, Jin aims for more but achieves less...
...falls under a hunger spell while at a restaurant. He eats all his Mediterranean noodles, then the fingers of one customer and the face of another. Finally, he devours all the meat and flesh from his own left arm; the appendage's skeleton waves rakishly. At the film?s climax, the malefic priest responsible for all this mischief sets his sights on the last unviolated woman in Hong Kong, but he still needs a little erotic encouragement. ?Show me your bitchy look,? he commands...