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...accepted into the order. An innocent ecstasy suffuses her face as she becomes a "bride of Christ"; she has found release in her surrender to the Saviour's discipline. Her radiance explains the deepest mysteries: God is love, and sisterhood is beautiful. --By Richard Corliss...
...chirruping alibis, steals the show--or, rather, is awarded it by default. And Randy Quaid, as a gentleman caller, is a perfect audience surrogate: decent, dogged, perplexed by a family squabble that admits no strangers to its terrible embrace. The door clangs shut, and we are outside. --By Richard Corliss...
...Alas, only a few thousand people saw that show; millions will be able to see this hand-me-down version. Robert Frost said that poetry is what's lost in translation. All A Chorus Line lost here was its soul. Hey, kids, put the show back onstage. --By Richard Corliss...
...tone for the evening, and offered a clue to his film's enduring, endearing popularity, when he proclaimed, "It's very hard sometimes to separate fantasy from reality. Let's keep it that way!" Sage advice, in side or outside a late-night double-feature picture show. --By Richard Corliss...
...recent marine documentaries. Oh, and Titanic. Cameron's ultimate sea adventure, surely his wettest, is this aquanautic journey leading to the discovery of a new species. There's a whirling wonder in this confrontation. And a sobering message: sometimes the monster on the ocean floor is man. --By Richard Corliss...