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...Heroic Rescue...
...Kong director Johnnie To prefers life on the city's cinematic mean streets. His 1999 film The Mission was a highlight of the low-life genre, a noirish masterpiece that lionized criminals and their ritualized codes of honor. But even while flirting with darkness, To has sought out the heroic in his antiheroes, never giving into nihilism. Redeemable bad guys will always be better for the box office...
That’s the way this team works. There has not been a singular hero this season, but there have been a plethora of heroic games and heroic moments...
...from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction of universally heroic Poles and in its sympathy for an officer of Hitler’s vicious army to the east. Winner of this year’s Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay. The Pianist screens...
When the comic book-sounding “Sky Mann” was announced at the Beanpot tournament last year, it was oddly appropriate. The man at the plate was in the midst of a downright heroic freshman season...