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...indelible evening of minimalist theater sorcery. The one visible magician is Whitelaw, for whom Beckett wrote the two sepulchral mood pieces Footfalls and Rockaby. Scraping across the stage or hardly moving in her shroud of a rocking chair, she performs daredevil isometric exercises of the soul. - By Richard Corliss...
...three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum of uninspired professionalism. But Chita Rivera's high-voltage presence and performance act as saving shock therapy for a catatonic show-biz form. -By Richard Corliss...
...team does not have the scoring punch to stay competitive on offense. "Maybe so," says Vairo. "But a lot of the same things were said in 1980, and look what happened. I'm still a believer in dreams. And in my dreams, we win." -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Lee Grlggs with the U.S. hockey team
...Huppert are playing the director's own parents, 30 troubled years ago. Autobiography is often the excuse for retrospective vindictiveness, but Kurys is too mixed in her sympathies, too talented at her craft, to harbor such notions. She knows that filming well is the best revenge. -By Richard Corliss...
...Richard Corliss...