Word: schickele
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history to grant coherence to chaotic experience. No one but John Sayles, that is. His Lone Star has become, in limited release, this summer1s movie of choice for grownups who still regard intricate narrative and careful characterization as the most treasurable of special effects, says TIME's Richard Schickel. There are no explosions here, just a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave after a 30-year rest. Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), sheriff in a Texas border town where even corruption proceeds at a somnolent pace, has reason to believe these to be the earthly remains of a sadistic and crooked...
...Richard Schickel...
Mission: Impossible? well, maybe, since all that the characters in this superblockbuster [CINEMA, May 27] seem to want to do is just save their jobs. Although I agree with film critic Richard Schickel that the movie was so-so at best, I'd like to suggest that he see the film again, as he missed the deeper message. Whether or not it was their intention, the screenwriters have loaded the movie with psychosociological metaphors, turning it from an uneven, sometimes exciting, sometimes very so-so spy thriller into a study of current trends in corporate America and the escalating employment...
...Schickel kidding when he wrote that Tom Cruise sports "the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star"? Cruise looks great--clean, sleek and lithe. Just what is called for. Besides, his new look is hardly new at all: everybody knows this haircut worked wonders for Keanu Reeves in Speed and Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever. KRISTINA FELICIANO New York City Via E-mail...
...Richard Schickel...