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The masculine film, Return with Honor, received standing ovations at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It is now being released around the country. The documentary, a nonideological then-and-now account of American pilots shot down over North Vietnam and held as prisoners of war, got the same tearful...
Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg's WWII baby is clearly the front-runner here, and notonly because its Oscar victory been foreshadowedby the Golden Globes, the DGA awards and hundredsof critics' associations. Private Ryan is aquintessentially American movie. Despite criticalhyperbole setting the film up as a panculturalantiwar film a la All...
Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan: TomHanks is America's good man, our decent soldier.The parts that he takes tend to be sointrinsically sympathetic that, combined with hisclassic stoic-yet-vulnerable schtick, it's almostoverkill. Almost, but not quite; no one can denyHanks' talent as an actor. However, Ryan's CaptainMiller...
WHO WILL WIN: There's no clear answerhere. By process of elimination we can probablynarrow the playing field down to Hanks andMcKellen (commercial darling; critical darling)purely from industry buzz. But to tell the truth,it's anyone's game. Five strong performances, allflawed, make for a tight Best Actor...
WHO SHOULD WIN: More ambiguity here.Okay, not Hanks--he's done better. NotBenigni--too one-note. Probably not Norton,because his role did not require the subtlety andsophistication of Nolte's and McKellen's. Butbetween these two? It's a tossup. The performancesare so different and so good that it...