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Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is all too easily proved right. But everyone once in a while a gem like As Good As It Gets comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor and, best of all, complicated and original characters. Beautifully acted and surprisingly quirky, As Good As It Gets is a feel good movie that you don't have to feel guilty to feel good about...
...deserve. The division between the rich and poor that dominates the early scenes gives way to a more complex dichotomy between suicide and self-preservation. Over-all, Titanic is a pyrrhic victory for James Cameron. But even if the film does not achieve its grand ambitions, a gem of a movie is still to be found within all of the excess
...Life Last season was a dismal one for Broadway musicals--the off year between Rent and The Lion King--but it did produce one underrated gem, this tale of seedy Times Square before it got Disneyfied. Complain about the cliched book if you must, but few musicals are this hard-edged and slam-bang entertaining at the same time. And few songwriters can still turn out showstoppers like Cy Coleman...
...Florence had been taking fertility pills. And she and Nathan had hit the jackpot. Change the names and up the ante, and the Bobbi McCaughey saga is fully scripted in the Coen Brothers' gem Raising Arizona...
...Crimson's early woes are what makes Harvard's 2-0 gem yesterday, its current seven game winning streak and its stubborn pursuit of the National title all the more glorious...