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...family’s colored maid, played by a white man in drag. A physically imposing woman—Sullivan is built like a football player—Hazel is just as likely to pull off the tablecloth as she is to sweep up the ensuing mess...
...night coffee shop on Upper Broadway in New York City, October 1965’ Gilead offers a snapshot of a grimy metropolis populated by lowlifes and outcasts, all struggling to make a living and deal with the sadness of their lives. In the middle of the mess of it all, a young prostitute and a reluctant pusher find each other and make a stab at happiness, their tragic story played out alongside vivid characterizations of other denizens of their world. Much this is accompanied by Velvet Underground music, particularly the first few minutes of Lou Reed singing...
...royal mess in Iraq will be a challenge for any president to clean up. After the horrific damage—in terms of infrastructure and human lives—the war has inflicted, we have reservations about the prospect for quick stabilization in the region. But Kerry’s plan to begin to turn chaos into order is, at the very least, a reasonable start. The internationalization of the burden is a necessary step that the Bush administration should have taken long ago, and we hope that efforts to train Iraqi security forces will be more whole-hearted than...
...producer attempting to capitalize on the commercial success of Shakespeare in Love. But, in addition to the significant absence of Gwyneth Paltrow’s come-hither androgynous sultriness and sans Tom Stoppard’s once-over on the screenplay, Stage Beauty is a raucous, vulgar mess. Between two rather abrupt (and unsatisfying) oral sex scenes, cliché moments of Maria finding her on-stage presence (again with the doe eyes) and its hamfisted themes of gender identity, the filmmakers abandoned any attempt to make a coherent and entertaining film—or to give viewers a taste...
...never follows up on it. Bad performances all around and a reliance on an auterist aesthetic being able to triumph over a woefully shallow script are to blame here. Combine the long takes with middling actors giving painfully over-articulated performances and you have something of a mess. Set against the background of bold visual filmmaking and the near incoherent plot, the performances stand out—for their lack of skill...