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...harrowing tableau just as apocalyptic as anything Coppola imagined. However, Mendes is hamstrung by a weak script. Few of the characters get the development they deserve. Gyllenhaal does a serviceable job of slowly going insane, and Sarsgaard is searing; he’s far from the fey foil he usually plays. But Foxx is forced to do the best he can with a one-dimensional role and Chris Cooper is wasted as a stereotypically foul-mouthed, hard-edged officer. “Jarhead”’s characters annoyingly avoid any mention of Bush Sr., preferring platitudes about...
...power 24 years earlier that leaves him lying in a bloody heap on the stairs of India’s apartment building. Max’s relationship with Boonyi is a non-too-subtle allegory of the clash between Eastern and Western values, and although he is clearly a foil to Shalimar, he emerges as a tragic hero. We hate him for his selfish womanizing, but admire him for being “the Resistance hero, the philosopher prince, the billionaire power-broker, the maker of the world!” The novel powerfully integrates life and history, rendering...
Ware, still fresh from his success with “Jimmy Corrigan,” is a foil to Burns. Ware has just released a collection of his serial “ACME Novelty Library,” unknown to most of us but beloved by those in the know...
...film’s only innovation is the weirdness of the characters and casting: Robert Downey Jr. plays Harry, a dim-witted thief, while Val Kilmer plays his foil: mean, burly private eye “Gay” Perry, whose handle doesn’t spring from his constant happiness...
...flimsy roofs of the homes at Kamsa crumpled like tin foil, and three schools were swept down into the raging Neelum river. Students who lived through the fall were swept to their deaths in the rapids...