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They have never shared the court. Neither did Magic and Kobe...
...bullpen, which for decades had leaked late-inning leads like a faulty tire valve, finally stopped letting the air out. In Game 3 of the ALCS, the Bronx Bombers brutalized Boston pitching, winning 19-8, to go up three games to none. That's when the magic ride began. The next night, five Sox pitchers shut the Yanks out for the last six innings, giving Boston a chance to tie and then win the game on David Ortiz's walk-off home run in the 12th. A day later, six Sox emerged from the pen to hold the Yanks...
Alas, the film takes ages to come to life. Instead of seducing the audience into Barrie's world, it assumes we will have brought the magic with us and need only a rouged-up, dewily rendered version of the true story. David Magee's script, which kills off Sylvia's husband and hurries along the dissolution of Barrie's marriage, also apportions blame far too blithely, turning James' wife (the lovely Radha Mitchell) and Sylvia's mother (the meanly used Julie Christie) into those familiar villains, small-minded grownups. Sylvia too is a stick figure: languishing like the heroine...
...catches more deeply, though, is all that can't be seen or said. She gives us her pilgrims from the inside out, illuminating their hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
...franchises, that has led to project like Bryan Singer’s X-Men and Christopher Nolan’s new version of Batman. The key is Anton Furst’s remarkable production design; there is nothing quite like the Gotham City he designed with Burton. Anchoring the magic is Jack Nicholson’s astonishing performance as The Joker. He has truly “danced with the devil in the pale moonlight,” a sight that must be seen to be believed. 7 p.m. at the Harvard Film Archive...