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...initial premise is clichéd but promising, and during the film’s early scenes, director James Mangold does a satisfying job of building genuine tension around the first few murders. Alongside each dead body, there lies one of the motel room keys, counting down from “10.” Primary suspects in the killings start dying, at which point the group learns that the motel was built on an ancient Native American burial ground. And when one of the characters runs off toward a row of eerie blue lights in the distance, he inexplicably...
STARRING: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer DIRECTOR: James Mangold...
...actors are expert, but it is as a quite literal comedy of manners (the duke has them; Kate needs them) that director (and co-writer) Mangold's film works best. There are excellent jokes about everything from television to pooper scooping, and given that this holiday film season has come up more than a little short on love and laughter, one can easily forgive Kate & Leopold the slightly excessive lengths and complications to which it goes in search of those rare commodities. --R.S. THE MAJESTIC...
...bravado is backed up by substance. "Angie is rebellious, volatile and really smart," says director James Mangold, who clashed with her during the shooting of Girl, Interrupted. "Playing this role put her in the mode of questioning authority. But if someone delivers the goods like she did, then I'm happy to struggle with the personality." Jolie concedes she shares her character's outspoken nature: "Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's like the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders what's wrong...
...that director (and final-draft writer) James Mangold has botched the job. It's just that he made something rather conventional out of a memoir that was spare, terse and elliptically funny. And naturally, the film's attitude toward its patients is the only acceptable one these days: that they may be saner than their keepers--especially since this is the '60s, when the outside world is so crazy...