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RockNRolla Written and directed by Guy Ritchie; rated R; out now As Anglo meanies battling Russian toughs over a real estate deal, Gerard Butler is the star, Tom Wilkinson has the star turn, and Mark Strong steals the show. Fans of early Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Snatch) won't find a lot new in Mr. Madonna's latest dredging of the London underworld, but it has the same high quotient of rude...
...advice, as well as his wisdom, his opinions and his accomplishments--all gussied up to show everyone who's not as lucky, as smart, as gutsy or, well, as cool as Sir Richard how to succeed in business. And you've got to give him his due: the guy can sell just about anything, and with flair. Perhaps even books...
...William Monahan, Oscar winner for The Departed, and directed by Ridley Scott, who proved in Black Hawk Down that he knows how to detonate suspense in the bazaar of political ideas. More important, Body of Lies is based on David Ignatius' best seller, which casts Ferris as a good-guy hero, firmly in the spy-novel tradition, and makes him the agent of a devious plot that could just about save the world...
Before the movie makes its détente with cliché, it offers what seem like keen insights into Arab and American cunning. DiCaprio anchors the film with his charm and commitment, and Strong, here as well as in Guy Ritchie's new film, RockNRolla, proves himself a charismatic, enigmatic secret keeper. Crowe is a bit of a disappointment and a distraction. He usually disappears persuasively into his roles, but here he wears the paunchy Hoffman like an off-the-rack suit from the Big & Tall Men's Shop...
...Apparently this was enough to remind Harvard coach Tim Murphy that Ho, a guy with a 4.8 career yards per carry average, was pretty good at what he did before he got wiped off the depth chart. In danger of becoming known solely as that guy on the team with the same name as the 15th Century Chinese explorer from your AP World History class, Ho got the nod last Saturday against Lafayette...