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...Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Bullets over Broadway and Mighty Aphrodite in the mid-'90s. So, as we near the mid-'00s, can we hope for another blossoming? It would be nice if the Woodman had one more return to top form--an invigorating dose of comic Viagra. --By Richard Corliss
...woman.) He uses an art form associated with fast-paced, plot-heavy, male-centric fantasy to tell naturalistic stories of love and loss. Both "Slow News Day" and "Dumped" have a soft, subtle pleasure in their stories of the things that really matter. While "Spider-Man" may be the comic character of the moment, his extraordinary powers would be laughably useless in Watson's world...
...crossbreeding of Spider-Man with new film technology--part of Marvel Comics' adventure in big-budget movies, which began with the hit Blade and X-Men entries--seems a natural. On the printed page, comic-book action hero is an oxymoron; a man can fly only in the reader's complicitous mind. Films make the fantastic real; they are, after all, called motion pictures. In the new Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood arachno-human can execute some cool moves as he trapezes above New York City. In these aerial scenes (a combination of acrobatic stunt work and digital derring...
...With great power," Uncle Ben also says, "comes great responsibility." And with great hype come great expectations. This movie, which will be a big hit, is up against more than a beloved comic book; for the millions of visitors to Universal Studios Florida, it must overcome memories of the Spider-Man theme-park attraction. In a six-minute tram tour of upper Manhattan, the ride provides careering thrills, state-of-the-art 3-D visuals and a fistful of supervillains. There, and not on Sam Raimi's screen, is where to find a charismatic Spider-Man--and a moving marvel...
...question, When is it O.K. to stop crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator?a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov?feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...