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...Richard Schickel...
...freedom of mind and spirit that modernity keeps promising but never quite delivers. "This leaves them at once ranting and wistful, delivering those arias of discontent -- often funny, sometimes touching, always brutally frank -- that are the hallmark of the director?s famously improvisational style," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Though our heroines' initial wariness gives way to a tentative reawakening of a friendship less abrasive, possibly more trusting, than it once was, nothing much happens, dramatically speaking, in 'Career Girls.' It is less scarring than Leigh's 'Naked,' less poignant than 'Secrets & Lies.' But still it offers a behavioral truthfulness...
...MOVIES . . . PICTURE PERFECT: Jenifer Aniston, as she proves every week on 'Friends,' is an actress who serenely lets the comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it, notes Schickel. And her nicely judged blend of intelligence and inexperience saves the slightly silly premise (woman needs man to play her husband in order to get a raise) of this romantic comedy. "Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of 'Moonlighting,' operates in the same smart, patient manner," says Schickel You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply -- enough of these...
...Richard Schickel...
MOVIES: In "Air Force One," "Harrison Ford is the president we deserve," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "a morally square peg in the Oval Office." When Air Force One is taken over by terrorists (led by Gary Oldman), Ford's James Marshall eludes the invaders, and finds himself stalking the surprisingly capacious byways of the plane. "There is good -- sometimes witty -- suspense in Marshall?s single-handed efforts to coordinate a rescue effort by his Washington staff with his own attempts to set his people free using whatever modest tools (a table knife, a cell phone, a fax machine) come...