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...does not take cues from any other actor who has played Bond before, mostly because he doesn’t need to. His credits—including “Layer Cake,” “Enduring Love” and “Road to Perdition??—are evidence enough that he’s an immensely talented actor and, like Christian Bale did for “Batman,” his performance makes “Casino” much richer than it is expected to be.The film works so well...
Directed by Sam Mendes Universal Pictures 3 1/2 STARS “Jarhead” is director Sam Mendes’ third movie, and like his first two (“American Beauty,” “Road to Perdition??), it dances around the subject of violence. As it follows the action of the first Gulf War, we sense chaos indirectly. We see bomb blasts reflected through windows; we watch smoke rise above the bodies of Iraqi civilians, recently burnt off-screen. This violence is filtered through the eyes of narrator Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal...
Best Supporting Actor, a traditionally strong category, will no doubt include long-ignored journeymen Chris Cooper for Adaptation and Dennis Quaid for Far From Heaven. The Hours’ Ed Harris is a likely nominee, while Road to Perdition??s Paul Newman and Chicago’s John C. Reilly are less so. Nevertheless, I expect both of them to make the cut, leaving Frida’s Alfred Molina, Catch Me If You Can’s Christopher Walken and Narc’s Ray Liotta, among others, out in the cold...
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