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Garofalo is brilliant as Vicki. She puts an intelligent twist on the typical working-at-the-Gap scenario by having Vicki be intense, yet self-aware in her dedication to the job. After masterfully folding a sweater, she declares, "People just don't realize what it takes. They just don't". Also, she salvages the potentially tired AIDS subplot in one of the funniest scenes in the movie, in which she discusses her plight in terms of the characters of Melrose Place...
...behooves you to go out and see the movie before writing the review. Don't (at least, at first) say things like, "How good can any movie with Pia Zadora be?" or "Well, since when has Steven Spielberg come up with anything popular?" You never know when some freakish twist of cinematic nature might prove you wrong...
...anything, Michael Apted's "Blink" is pretty damn scary. Madeleine Stowe plays Emma Brody, a woman who receives a cornea transplant after twenty years of blindness only to witness a murder, In a new twist on the "blind-women erotic thriller," hallucinations plague Emma as a result of the surgery. Emma's eyes and brain, so unused to processing sight, replay images long after she has actually seen them. Director Apted and script writer Dana Stevens milk this replay mechanism dry in the name of frightening their audience, The only images that pop up on emma are horrible ones...
...didn't enjoy killing mice: "It was gross. you could either gas them to death, or take them by the tail and the nape of the neck and then twist...
...sorry spectacle of Tonya and Nancy. Their contretemps is not only a living metaphor for tarnished ideals of sport but also a depressing reminder that a litigation-mad and bureaucracy-laden society has if anything diminished its means of extracting plain truth in timely fashion. Whatever the ultimate twist of their tortuous saga, it seems certain that the contest they both sought so ardently to win will unfold without decisive evidence of Harding's innocence or guilt. The satisfying simplicity of sport, with its winners and losers and tangible numbers and seemingly objective results in a world otherwise given...