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...room-full of somber patients dire diagnoses that can only be delivered behind closed doors and thick desk. His tone borders on that of the tirelessly tireless banner-holders of American Progress: those great 50s sci-fi scientists intoning the mysteries of the future today. It's an admirable feat of dedicated characterization, and Shrier is here nothing if not consistent...
...That's an extraordinary feat especially when achieved without robber baron methods," Yalman said...
Hoffman's Brackett is by far the most complex and believable character of the bunch. Still, the writers need him to become more sympathetic as the climax approaches, and they try very hard to make us like him again, a feat which requires some serious mid-movie plot engineering (up to this point, we've only seen him capitalizing on tragedy and weighing the pros and cons of seducing Lori). Halfway into the film, two wolfish network producers inexplicably show us a clip of Brackett and anchor Hollander on the site of a gruesome airplane crash. Shaken by the carnage...
Unfortunately for Harvard, this feat may prove difficult, especially considering that goaltender Jason Elliott will be back in net for Cornell. The senior netminder allowed only 2.86 goals per game last year, the sixth best mark in the country...
...Nights has been described as an expression of the mythological American dream, as an interpretation of two extraordinary American decades and as a portrait of a uniquely American family. It is all these things in the capable hands of Anderson, who is rightly lauded as a virtuoso. Anderson's feat evokes an interesting question: Why does the modern essence of our country lend itself so nicely to the symbolism of hard-core pornography...