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Virtually all the punks in the City of God hood are teenage or younger. To be older is to be dead--killed for any reason or none, by rivals or the horde of infant pretenders. A kind of Menudo Mean Streets, Fernando Meirelles' fact-based epic zigzags through the stories of a dozen hoodlums and 20 years of carnage. The only thing worse than the sadistic glee with which Ze (Leandro Firmino da Hora) runs the town is the veneration he gets from kids who confuse machismo with maturity. "I smoke and snort," one tyro terrorist says. "I've killed...
...DiCAPRIO: I get asked this question a lot - about the difference between Marty and Steven Spielberg. But it would only be fair for me make that distinction if I worked on similar films with both of them. Like an epic with Spielberg, or something that was like an independent road movie with Marty. They're most definitely Great American master filmmakers, but it's hard for me to compare...
...million is how much U.S. moviegoers spent to see Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the epic's first two weeks in theaters...
...final face-off--a Celtic clan skirmish that has little to do with the larger atrocities. The point may be that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
...Although the hobbit hero Frodo may have failed to resist the temptation of the magic Ring, it is the slithery Gollum--thought to be nothing more than a nuisance--who ultimately destroys the Ring. Tolkien presents these profound ideas in the guise of an old-fashioned sword-and-sorcery epic. But the characters are as real and human as we are. BLAIR HURLEY Newton, Mass...