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THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF LOUSY movies: those made by morons and those made in the firm belief that we are the morons. The former are forgivable--poor dears, they don't know any better. The latter, of which The Juror is a particularly egregious example, are infuriating. They leave you feeling you've been patronized and bilked by people nursing entirely unearned superiority complexes...
Clearly, The Juror isn't interested in placing its heroine in the kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays...
...really act in a movie like this; you can only look swell and play attitudes, which everybody here does. The basic trouble with The Juror is that like a lot of movies these days, it is narratively arrogant. Its creators either think they're so smart they can distract us from whopping elisions in their story line--there's a lot of murky stylishness in the film's look--or believe we're so stupid that we won't notice them. But as those trailers about the movie theater's sound system keep reminding us, "The Audience is Listening." Watching...
...good news for embattled boxing promoter Don King is that prosecutors will not appeal a mistrial ruling in his insurance fraud case. The bad news? Federal prosecutors immediately pushed for a retrial. A mistrial was declared Thursday when jurors remained deadlocked over whether King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London if a 1991 fight was canceled. The defense maintains that King, who has survived three grand jury probes and was aquitted of tax evasion in 1985, was the innocent victim of his accountant, the implausibly named Joseph Maffia. King's defense contends that Maffia...
...other remaindered O.J. news: a dismissed Simpson juror is reportedly doing the only logical thing for a person in her position--posing for Playboy. Tracy Hampton, 26, spent last Thursday at a studio rented by the magazine and set up to resemble a courtroom...