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...years ago, develops his material. Jennifer 8 (the first victim was named Jennifer) is a classic whodunit, with clues fairly laid out (often visually) and the suspense tightening as pursuer and pursued draw closer together. It is also a persuasive portrayal of an increasingly tense cop community (John Malkovich contributes a tough, scary FBI interrogator grilling Berlin when false suspicion focuses on him). Finally, aided immeasurably by the great Conrad Hall's darkly foreboding cinematography, the film is terrific to look at. This director has a real gift for rendering gloomy provinciality in subtle imagery...
...relevance beyond its time. John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN (1937) meets that challenge. Its loser-heroes could be two of today's homeless horde searching for work, for value, for someone -- anyone -- who might find value in them. In Horton Foote's scrupulous new adaptation, John Malkovich is lumbering Lennie, whose frustrated tenderness crushes the things he would cherish; Gary Sinise is George, Lennie's protective pal; Sherilyn Fenn is the lonely wife held hostage by capricious fate. The credibility of their playing breaks through the familiar sanctity of a "classic" revival. Sinise also directs, in a muted...
Finally, the rapport between John Malkovich and Gray Sinise as Lennie and George conveys the essential themes of the movie: loneliness and companionship. These two young, vagabond ranch hands present the only complete and fulfilling relationship of the film, although individually they are social misfits...
George Milton (Gary Sinise) and Lennie Small (John Malkovich), protagonists of both the book and movie, became tragic heroes in my early adolescent eyes. This story of two Depression era migrant workers, with its sparse prose, illumines the intricacies of loneliness and companionship, desire and hope, greed and helplessness. It ranks among the great American classics...
Finally, the rapport between John Malkovich and Gary Sinise as Lennie and George conveys the essential themes of the movie: loneliness and companionship. These two young, vagabond ranch hands present the only complete and fulfilling relationship of the film, although individually they are social misfits...