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Fortunately (and predictably) the more developed plots turn out considerably better. Graham (Don Cheadle) threatens to be pious when a District Attorney (Brendan Fraser) offers to help his delinquent younger brother Peter (Larenz Tate) in exchange for covering up evidence that exculpates a racist cop. Impressively, this tragic family story is delivered with understanding and humanity...
...narrative trajectories of a novice, racially-sensitive white cop (Ryan Phillippe) and an affluent, light-skinned black woman (Thandie Newton) asks hard questions about the nature of modern American racism—silent but virulent...
...typical comedy sequel reverses the plot of the first film and tries to augment the parts that made the original funny. In Ms. Congeniality, tough cop Gracie Hart begrudgingly turns into a beautiful woman (this is, like, so hard for Bullock) while fighting crime at a beauty pageant; in Armed and Fabulous, the glam has gone to Hart’s head and she must shed her egotism and the Gucci before she can save her best friend Cheryl, the pageant queen from the first (Heather Burns...
...third tale features the fantastic Clive Owen as Dwight, yet another mentally-addled hero. Dwight is chasing crooked cop Jackie Boy, who is played with gleeful and gravelly-voiced creepiness by Benicio del Toro. Watching the two foils interact—Dwight as the shining protector of women, Jackie-boy as the sinister beater of barmaids—is another of the film’s great interplays. In a wry sequence guest-directed by Quentin Tarantino, the half-decapitated Jackie Boy taunts a hallucinating Dwight...
...suburban, plastic life yawning at them. THE WILD RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude: the bedroom eyes, the insult of a pearly smile, the preter-natural cocksureness. "I don't break the law," he sneers at a cop. "I make my own." Director Harvey Berman's earnest melodrama, about a teen rebel due for his comeuppance, is fun for its glimpse of Baby Jack's crystalline ego. When he's dumped by a married woman, he tells her, "Honey, you're a bad loser...