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...isn’t only that the Tigers couldn’t stop Hartigan (to whom Harvard ceded 115 yards in a double-overtime thriller earlier this fall). Princeton’s vaunted secondary didn’t fare much better...
...intellectual rage du jour and an inspiration for smart Hollywood directors. Today, with an adventurous spirit and a full tank of gas, you might track down a small gem like Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, a period comedy with rapier wit, or Claude Chabrol's La Ceremonie, a sardonic thriller about the death of the bourgeoisie with fearless star turns by Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire. Those, alas, are just tokens. Few foreign-language films are released in the U.S. these days, and those that are attract fewer customers...
...Cambridge’s only independent theater often has special weekday themes, such as “Gay Tuesdays”—featuring movies about the gay community—or “Film Noir Mondays” for thriller-lovers. All these specials are sometimes topped with a critical essay about the featured movies distributed to the audience of this small intellectual oasis, or spiced up by the presence of writers and/or producers...
...high-water slacks that McGregor wears in the last third of the film. Marc Foster’s otherwise gleaming resume, which includes “Finding Neverland” and “Monster’s Ball,” is sorely blemished by this enigmatically frayed thriller. Unlike “Finding Neverland,” “Stay” lacks a coherent storyline with relatable characters, failing to conjure the same substantial emotion. McGregor’s performance is, as usual, solid. His portrayal of the confused and increasingly terrified Dr. Foster is more...
...society, we have come to expect certain qualities of our print ads: visually eye-catching, the occasional free sample, a sniff of the latest designer fragrance. But the WB’s adding of a vaguely supernatural voice to promote its newest teeny-bopper thriller-lite, “Supernatural?” A girl’s got to draw the line somewhere...