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...picking but a matter of mortal consequence, the anti-Bush films went simultaneously for the heart and the throat, depicting the casualties of war: interviews with the families of U.S. soldiers - or, in the case of ?Control Room,? Iraqi civilians - killed during the invasion and occupation. (Taking a cue from the enemy, ?Fahrenhype? also had interviews with soldiers back from Iraq. They said they were honored to have served their country...
That may be a cue to the viewer that this is not a romantic triangle but a story of the complex love between parents and their kids. Deb could be the dread force of nature that helps unite the other people in the pained, needy, nearly always forgiving world of Jim Brooks...
...cue, from a Sunday-school classroom upstairs wafts the sound of 70 angelic young voices rendering a still shaky but clearly heartfelt version of Away in a Manger...
DiCaprio is ever plausible and watchable; he carries this big picture with grace. As for Scorsese, he seems to have taken a cue from the DiCaprio façade, fashioning a portrait of smooth surfaces and trusting DiCaprio to show what's inside. Well, an actor can reveal meaning, but he shouldn't be asked to invent it. Despite its star's heroic efforts, The Aviator is a gorgeous jet, flying on automatic pilot. --By Richard Corliss
...this discussion I would say that Prina’s work is founded on acknowledging, perhaps even embracing, several fundamental impossibilities in contemporary art making. The first has to do with the production of meaning. Prina told me that at a certain point in his career, taking a cue from the well known French cultural theorist Roland Barthes, he realized that it is impossible for a work of art to express a singular meaning. In other words, it is impossible to eliminate connotation, to prevent the uncontrolled proliferation of meanings attached to an object—there...