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...Richard Corliss...
...belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's charisma makes the film," says TIME's Richard Corliss. He hectors in poetry: 'If you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned,/ Just wait till I kick Foreman?s behind.' Some reporters, like George Plimpton, suspected that Ali?s smiles camouflaged his fear of the big, punishing champ. The film's title is rueful, notes Corliss. "Ali proved...
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...less performance artists than petty criminals, suffer from welfare-state dependency. And, in Michigan, this is the wrong state to depend on. Public servants are ignorant or lazy or just plain crazy."The film's villains are from Central Casting, the cops from Keystone," says TIME's Richard Corliss. " But that's not what matters. Taking a page from the Martin Scorsese handbook, Curtis Hall smartly heightens moments with epic visual declarations (slo-mo, negative images, gigantic closeups). The speeches are arias, the shots operatic, complex. Shakur also serves as his own elegist. 'All the things we talked about...