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...loving reader. In Maya, whom he has disappointed in so many ways, he may have found one. Perhaps the depressive has found a reason to hope. What is hope, anyway, if not knocking one last time on the door of a beautiful woman you've hurt? --By Richard Corliss...
...carves a complex character out of what could have been hagiography. Foxx's performance, like the film, is sympathetic but not sentimental. It is as true as the blues to Charles' pain, as ecstatic as rock 'n' roll to his triumph. It sings, and it swings. --By Richard Corliss...
...Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades later, it still does. --By Richard Corliss...
...right Freedom Party and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Jelinek was little-known abroad until now; in one day, sales of her novel The Piano Teacher jumped a million slots on Amazon.com into the top 10. That's one Jelinek story with a happy ending. --By Richard Corliss...
...Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades later, it still does. ?By Richard Corliss...