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...offer instruction in race relations? It did, in the 1972 All in the Family episode about Sammy Davis Jr.'s visit to the Bunkers. When Sammy kissed Archie, the cleansing shock of laughter was the smartest possible reparation for the impulse to turn racial anguish into kitsch. --By Richard Corliss...
...given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still haunts the tube. The Fear Factor daredevils, the Jackass prankster-masochists, the talk-show mutants who will do anything for a laugh or a shock--all are the nieces and nephews of Uncle Miltie. --By Richard Corliss...
...hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
...much razzle-dazzle that viewers may end up both raised and dazed. It's remorselessly inventive, trying anything fast and sassy to keep you watching. In other words, it's the most honest display of showpeople's need to be noticed this side of a Madonna concert. --By Richard Corliss...
...austere poignancy, and McElhone lacks the bewitching beauty of Natalya Bondarchuk in the original Solaris. But the project's gravity and ambition can't be denied. They inform Clooney's gently grieving demeanor, the ache in his eyes, the hope against hope for a love after death. --By Richard Corliss...