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...Jesus through a gore-drenched recreation of the final 12 hours before his death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters...
...Nevertheless, Meltzer will get a first round bye and will not face a ranked opponent until at least the third round, at which point he will probably face Central Michigan’s Jason Mester...
...Nevertheless, the score remained...
...clearly that these seeming malefactors are actually heroes? That we need more of them, not fewer? True, Martha has been found guilty (though she is appealing), and others may lose in court as well. True, these people may have personally harmed the economy and ripped off many individual investors. Nevertheless, taken together, they are a sign of the economy's robust health. Far better that a few greedheads get carried away than that we be worried that we are not getting the benefit of all the good, healthy, productive sort of greed that this country is capable of producing...
...with the 2003 film year officially over, we look ahead to a new annum of quality cinema. So far, I’ve been pleasantly surprised, with anticipated stinkers like Miracle and The Dreamers turning out fully palatable. Golden Globe winner Osama, was a bit muted in tone, but nevertheless a sharp portrait of Taliban-era Afghanistan. The biggest revelation of all, though, was my unexpected admiration for The Passion of the Christ, which exceeded my admittedly low expectations to emerge as one of the more meaningful films I’ve seen in quite some time...