Word: syrianaã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...present, we can understand the reasons corporate yuppies might turn to crime. Despite (or perhaps because of) its premise that crime pays, “Fun with Dick and Jane” is a welcome energetic, inoffensive romp—use it as an escape after “Syriana?? or “Munich...
Directed by Stephen GaghanWarner Bros. Pictures4 1/2 stars“Syriana?? is hardly the feel-good movie of the year. The audience has little to latch onto: there are no tidy conclusions, no moral victories. Jagged scenes, choppy story lines, and sharp dialogue bemuse and befuddle. The plot snakes in and around itself, yet the narrative entanglement revealed by the narrative peak lacks any sort of clear solution.But this uneasiness sets “Syriana?? apart as striking and provocative. The movie raises questions about politics, war, and the Middle East through the lens...
...dose of hot-button issues. In Shakespearean tragic tones, here’s what you’ve got coming: “Something’s rotten in the State of the Middle East”—The George Clooney-Matt Damon vehicle “Syriana?? expands into national release, and a kaleidoscopic story chronicling the nasty effects of the global oil industry couldn’t have come at a better time. If you didn’t notice, oil is a problematic commodity, and crazy stuff seems to happen all the time...
...debonair Danny Ocean in “Ocean’s 11,” George Clooney has secured his role as one of America’s permanent sex symbols. Clooney claims that his most recent roles—writing, producing, and starring in “Syriana?? and writing, directing and acting in the journalistic docudrama “Good Night, and Good Luck”—are not attempts to shy away from this image. These politically-charged dramas demonstrate his desire, which he reiterated in a recent college conference call, to provoke...
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