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The palpable differences between Secretary of State Powell on the one hand and Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on the other are so openly acknowledged now that they're joked about in public by the protagonists. There is nothing unusual or necessarily counterproductive about an administration making its...
It seems churlish to take anything away from a film with such a unanimously powerful opening and an attention to history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script moves from the opening battle sequence to the last is less than wholly...
It seems churlish to take anything away from a film with such a unanimously powerful opening, with two pitch-perfect supporting turns from Jeremy Davies (the milk-livered translator), and an attention to history that is emotionally edifying and alive. Still, the connecting material by which Robert Rodat's script...
Almost assuredly a major player in late-year awards tallies, Steven Spielberg's war drama was more coherent and less lazily rhetorical than 1997's Amistad. In fact, it seems churlish to take anything away from a film with such a unanimously powerful opening, with two pitch-perfect supporting turns...
"Art is the only serious thing in the world," runs Wilde's aphorism that is most descriptive of this dichotomy. "And the artist is the only person who is never serious." The 'seriousness' of art depends on what art achieves and sometimes what art discusses, but not how it is...