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...DINNER Lean-beef chili with nonfat cheese, onions, mushrooms, bell pepper, beans, tomatoes...
...line with similar films like Stand and Deliver and Lean on Me, Music of the Heart is a well-delivered package. Although a bit long, the film is still engaging and humorous. If you're looking for a reason to smile for two hours, I recommend that you take a friend and lift those spirits...
...scrounge up the dough. The movie unfolds in virtually real-time. Remember the last time we tried that? Johnny Depp in Nick of Time? To give the movie the juice it needs, director Tom Twyker directs Run Lola Run like a video game, programming Lola to be a lean mean running machine to hurdles an obstacle a minute. A critic called it the first "postmodern movie" of our time, but I think that's seeing it for more than it is. It's meant to be an adrenaline rush (like Pokemon!)--a sensory rather than emotional experience. And think about...
...teenage girls lean eagerly over the bakery counter toward clerk Luis Henrique, a native Brazilian who came to Cambridge to try to get a graduate degree in psychology at Harvard...
...sprinkled with pop (including a doo-wop quartet and a Puccinified version of Paper Doll), Bolcom has succeeded in smelting many disparate styles into a tightly unified idiom all his own. There are times when the openhearted lyricism of a Leonard Bernstein would have been welcome, but the lean, laconic score keeps the action moving, lending Miller's kitchen-table naturalism a freshening touch of poetry. Add in Josephson's star-quality performance as Eddie, the exemplary staging of Frank Galati (who directed Broadway's Ragtime) and Santo Loquasto's angular set--the Brooklyn Bridge as painted by Franz Kline...