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This story is being promoted as "true," although the only fully documented fact in Richard Hatem's script is the disaster--a collapsing bridge--that brings the movie to its climax. Actually it plays more like a good X-Files episode--full of plausible details placed in the service of paranormal (not to say paranoid) whoppers. But director Pellington's touch is light and flickering, and his actors are solid and persuasive. If you let yourself go with The Mothman Prophecies, it is--in its lumpen, serious way--sort...
...very well, believe me," Barak says. Inside, old people in thin hospital smocks sprawl on the floor tiles to keep cool in the seaside humidity. Until they moved out last year, this was how the hospital's Holocaust survivors had lived for half a century. That move was the climax of the campaign by Barak, Szor and Mark to have survivors treated as victims of trauma rather than as hopeless schizophrenics who should simply be drugged...
When Ocean’s crew finally executes the theft, it’s as slick as any I’ve ever seen, but the elements leading up to the climax captivate well before the film’s closing 30 minutes. Even though Ocean’s Eleven beats with a heart straight from a heist flick, through its veins courses much more substantial, more nuanced filmmaking. As with Traffic—though here much more subtlety—Soderbergh contrasts textures, colors and lighting in almost every scene. Damon’s introduction is filmed grainy...
...parodies are indeed quite sharp, especially its nailing of classic teen movie student stereotypes, such as the gorgeous girl who everyone thinks is ugly because she wears glasses and overalls. And the surprise cameo by former teen-queen/brat-packer Molly Ringwald at the film’s climax is both classy and hilarious...
...Laden's demise seem imminent, even if the Pentagon could not say precisely where he was. With Taliban forces ditching their guns and switching sides by the thousands, American commandos spent last week picking up bin Laden's scent?and nudging the six-week conflict toward a decisive climax. The Taliban faced devastation in its southern strongholds, and that shrank bin Laden's theater of operation. Pashtun operatives showered Western and Pakistani intelligence agents with information about bin Laden's hideouts. Pakistani officials told TIME that U.S. forces, working from reports that Taliban informants gave to Pakistani intelligence agents, have...