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...room or a mall or asleep, his face would radiate a purring contentment. I haven?t met the man, but I know a few people who know him, and they say, unbidden, that he is The Nicest Guy in the World. And when my in-house theater maven, Mary Corliss, chatted with him a while back, she said he was as gracious in person as he is imposing on stage. So his performance at the Regency isn?t method acting, apparently. It?s just an unfurling of his natural charm...
...force field around his watchful entropy. In his early years, he may have been only a nerd's idea of a hip guy. Now, at 40, he has achieved a freon-cool satori, which makes him the perfect, still center of a visually agitated, intellectually restless movie. --By Richard Corliss...
...beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry," she replies, "No, that was a compliment." From us too. --By Richard Corliss...
...judge in Lee's latest film, She Hate Me. In the '60s he spoke at Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Malcolm X's funerals. At the latter, he said, "In honoring him, we honor the best of ourselves." The best of us was in Ossie Davis. --By Richard Corliss...
...would be lovely to see a real Indian musical, or even a plausible fake, strike sparks with a mass audience. Heart and art can make a beguiling pair. Those are mostly missing in this strained hybrid, which is less Bollywood than Follywood. --By Richard Corliss...