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Brave and bright, good-natured and ambitious, naive and vulnerable -- all in all, saysTIME's Richard Schickel, Babe is "probably the most winsome orphan to appear on the screen since Freddie Bartholomew impersonated David Copperfield 60 years ago." Of course, he's a piglet, but still, he's a liberal humanist on trotters, capable of the occasional odd, soulful thoughts on mortality, and a welcome addition to a public life largely given over these days to swinishness of a less exemplary kind. Director Chris Noonan's fable shines with the classic virtue of the form--surface simplicity, seductive imagery...
...comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...
Richard Gere's Lancelot is a cheeky existentialist, Sean Connery's King Arthur is a temporizing leader for the Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during...
...wife and now member of the secret police. What Kotov doesn't learn until it's too late is that Dimitri has come not to steal his wife, but to conduct him to prison, humiliation and death. The genius of director Mikhalkov's film, saysTIME film critic Richard Schickel, is its "refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining...
...stories in the cover package were written by "the two Richards" of TIME's cinematic realm. In New York City senior writer Richard Corliss wove together the main story, while Los Angeles-based critic Richard Schickel commented on what all this has to do with the Oscars, and vice versa...