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...which the titular Jones (Albert Finney) and his latest squeeze stare at each other as they devour oysters and chicken with lascivious panache. When the film turns to its sprawling episodic plot (taken from the Henry Fielding novel), things grow slow and confusing. Finney proves an immensely charismatic hero, though, and he makes even the tedious spells entertaining. Wednesday at 4:30 and 9:30 p.m. Brattle Theatre...
...life embodies a severely warped version of the American dream: an extremely light-skinned black man passing himself off as a Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero Coleman Silk, Nicole Kidman less so as the battered Faunia—the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions; it falls victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel...
...FEEL ABOUT SPENDING MONEY WITH YOUR SIGNATURE ON IT? It's made me a hero to my grandchildren. And it's been the occasion for my meeting any number of people who come up to me in restaurants and airports and ask me to sign their money. I try to oblige...
Elizabeth Smart has a most unlikely hero: a star from a rival network, namely, John Walsh (Bruce Gooch), whose America's Most Wanted was instrumental in Emmanuel's capture. The winner of the CBS-NBC battle of the quickies, it turns out, is Fox. Two hours of prime-time advertising, and it didn't pay a cent. --By James Poniewozik
...base in southeast China on a harrowing yearlong slog that killed 9 out of 10 soldiers?but ultimately, by saving the core cadre to fight another day, set the stage for the Communists' victory, launched a nation and turned a little-known guerilla fighter named Mao Zedong into a hero...