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...Chris Rock aptly observed in an interview last month, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator—perhaps the closest Hollywood came to producing an epic in the past year—draws its dramatic power from the suspense of watching a wealthy white man choose where to invest his money. In the age of Enron and Halliburton, it’s surely a story for our time and the picture most likely to take home the top prize at this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles...
...distant from the viewer, these pictures cut too close to the bone. Sideways is an apt parable of its time, a tale of failure, loss, and botched hedonism. That mix is a bit too real in the era of outsourcing and Dennis Kozlowski. And for Academy voters in Hollywood, the casual alcoholism and bungled love affairs could seem more painful fact than funny fiction...
...despite its Old Hollywood narcissism and jumpy narrative, The Aviator stands as one of the best cinematic achievements of 2004. Left high and dry by the stunted Alexander and kitschy Spider-Man 2, audiences were desperate for a reminder of why they go to movies in the first place. Scorsese delivered, creating lovingly detailed sets, momentous speeches, and an electric dynamic between star Leonardo DiCaprio and scene-stealer Cate Blanchett, who resurrects Katharine Hepburn onscreen...
...fear over-intellectualizing a Hollywood project that likely spent far more time and money on fight scenes than philosophical inquiry, but Constantine ups the ante in the messianic-action genre by grotesquely overloading the film with hijacked symbolism and lexicon from established religion. In a society that is obsessed with both political correctness and pushing the envelope, Constantine treads dangerous ground with its less-than-reverent appropriation of Roman Catholic rites and faith...
...first things first: I have to nail the Golden Globe acceptance speech (which I won after seducing the entire Hollywood Foreign Press...