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...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators. In all, there are 29 crime shows on the network schedules, accounting for roughly 21 of the 63 prime-time hours each week... Attempts to vary that formula have stretched as far as TV writers' imaginations can fetch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 29 Years Ago In TIME | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...good psychological thriller keeps its viewers anxiously anticipating a surprise plot twist that seamlessly, and often eerily, makes all the pieces fit together. Think The Sixth Sense. Think The Others. Do not think Abandon...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Abandon" Ship | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...confusion, and spirals out of control. Simultaneously trying to balance her thesis, job interviews and a resurfaced first love, Katie ultimately seeks comfort in the arms of Wade. However, violent run-ins with Embry and multiple time skips interrupt their uninspired romance. The film ends with a final twist that is predictable, laughable and not at all thrilling...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Abandon" Ship | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...mind; instead, it relys on shamelessly dramatic flashbacks of her father leaving her in a field of snow to give the audience insight into her doom-riddled fear of abandonment. Moreover, although the most crucial aspect of Katie’s affliction that feeds into the final plot twist is rather obvious right from the start, the movie chooses to pretend that the viewer has no clue about this key fact and plows through scene after scene that would be tense and suspenseful if only the underlying cause were not already made clear...

Author: By Sarah L. Solorzano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Abandon" Ship | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...near Seattle, a mental institution, a former horse-breeder with a disturbing family history and the bottom of a very deep well. And just when you start to think that the movie is going to have a cute, lame and satisfying resolution, there’s a pretty clever twist at the end that leaves you with a somewhat sour and uneasy taste in your mouth—that is, exactly what you should want from a movie of this variety...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Movie Worth Dying For | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

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