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Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendenies of a Harvard-graduated loony. --Jonathan B. Dinerstein...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendencies of a Harvard-graduated loony...
Soul Food is also feeling like a hit. The weekend it opened, all eyes were on DreamWorks' $70 million first feature, The Peacemaker (George Clooney! Nuclear terrorism!). But when the box-office numbers were tallied, a little-heralded African-American family drama named Soul Food (Irma P. Hall! Sweet-potato pie!) had not only grabbed the No. 3 position with $11.2 million in ticket sales but had also scored the highest per-screen average of any film in wide release: $8,363. And by last Thursday, Soul Food had taken in $3 million more, bringing its gross to more than...
...have guessed that Malick would be the one directing seemingly every other male movie star in Hollywood in a big-scale World War II combat epic. The picture is The Thin Red Line, based on the James Jones novel about the battle of Guadalcanal. The cast includes George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Bill Pullman and John Travolta. And they are only, with the exception of Penn, members of the supporting cast...
Standard action-film stuff, including the big-vehicle-dangling-off-a-precipice scene from Spielberg's The Lost World. It works well for a while, thanks to Mimi Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...