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...Zhang is charisma incarnate. She is already nearing American stardom, playing the lead in Memoirs of a Geisha. You can bet she will reveal a new kind of star quality, even as the dazzling Daggers shows Hollywood how to make an action film with depth and pizazz. --By Richard Corliss...
...awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie's real vengeance is to invade the film's story and conquer it. This man's movie is a woman's triumph after all. --By Richard Corliss...
...educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely. Kinsey is like its hero's work: an enlightening lecture on a naughty subject, briskly delivered by a nice gent in a bow tie. --By Richard Corliss...
...rest of the time, the film stifles any impulse to believe in its buoyancy by being sadly earthbound. Peter and the boys may fly through the bedroom window; Finding Neverland takes a big, brave leap and lands splat on the sidewalk. By Richard Corliss...
...fresh? We mean devilishly, deliriously impudent. --By Richard Corliss...