Word: subtext
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer edges than the original. But the possibly liberating subtext, that a woman is entitled to be sexy and violent just like a male action star, is intact -- and well played by Fonda...
...Rendell's attempts at substance fall flat. She periodically injects clumsy melodramatic flourishes intended to highlight a thoughtful subtext to the play which just isn't there. Towards the end, one character stares out at the audience and pronounces with infinite gravity, "It's time to go home," as if he were impeaching a president. In the final scene, tourists on a bridge turn to face the audience one by one, in time with the resonant chimes of Big Ben, like so many horsemen of the Apocalypse. The play does not have a dark, gritty core, and any ponderous attempts...
...plot. Brian Martin does a terrific job as Tess Pattern, a wovewy journalist with a speech impediment. She and Tab Lloyd (Andrew Howard), a 15th-century Geraldo Rivera-Maury Povich type, dig away at the sleazy side of the kingdom, threatening to broadcast everyone's dirty laundry. (Political Subtext...
...fact, the authors use a repertoire of hackneyed Bush jokes that seem stale four months after the campaign. (Political Subtext...
...becomes Long Island (we thought she was supposed to be Amy Fisher for a while) and sometimes disappears altogether. Haste is one of Lasnight's previous nights, and now she's pregnant. She writes a kiss and-tell "scroll" and tries to convince Diana that Lastnight is scum. (Political Subtext...