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...laughing people. That's one reason Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention is a cure for nagging ethnic generalities. This Palestinian sort-of-comedy has a sly wit that amuses and disturbs in equal, salubrious measure. From the Santa Claus who gets a cleaver in his chest to the Israeli cop who relies on a blindfolded Arab prisoner to give directions to a stranger, the film mixes the deadpan delight of Buster Keaton's classics with the elegant image framing of a Robert Bresson tragedy...
...Zaidi, a crime correspondent at Bombay's Mid-Day newspaper, portrays the city's cops and their investigation as thoroughly professional, despite a wealth of independent evidence to the contrary. He glosses over their lapses?detectives took 48 hours to discover that the bombers' car was owned by a Mafia don?and all but ignores their imprisonment (and sometimes torture) of hundreds of innocent Muslims. In one typical partial passage, Zaidi describes how on March 15, "after three days of running around furiously," one investigator, Rakesh Maria, "was hoping to spend most of the day at home" but was suddenly...
...passing police car pulled over and one student combatant, freed from the clutches of the aggressive ass-grabber, fell to the sidewalk. “The two locals walked down the street, as the cop came up to talk to us,” says Aguanno. “I explained what had happened, and the cop walked down the street to frisk them. We watched for a minute or two and then escaped down a side street.” HONG KONG FIGHT-O-METER RATING...
...acid.) Casting O'Neill (Married... with Children's Al Bundy) as the new Friday may have raised titters, but O'Neill nails the role, with a hard-bitten empathy that Webb could never touch. The show also makes better use of Friday's voice-over, showing us how a cop processes clues invisible to most...
Indeed, Dragnet could use even less Dragnet. It was a mistake to keep the "dum-da-DUM-dum" theme, now irrevocably ironized, and the voice-over, while not so intrusive as Webb's, moralizes too much. There's no need to persuade us that a cop finds serial killers repellent. But as you settle into the show's rhythms and well-crafted plots, you forget these glitches. You could almost be watching Law & Order...