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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world in 1997, this all-star, megamovie chases time backward to a painful image. It's just what you'd expect from the director of that brilliant dark-side retro-futuristic vision, Brazil. But this film is no Brazil, says Corliss: "Intent on both dazzling and punishing the viewer, Gilliam gets lost in creepy spectacle and plenty of old film clips." Ultimately, 12 Monkeys has the same message of all dour sci-fi satire, Corliss concludes. "I have seen the future, and it sucks...
...PERSUASION and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The first of these Jane Austen adaptations is reserved, the second more bustling. But both have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is rewarded too: by subtle ensemble acting, writing that understands the void that tactful conversation fills, direction (by Roger Michell and Ang Lee, respectively) that finds the hidden hungers of the cautious soul. Honorable mention to Clueless, the Emma of Beverly Hills High...
...lions, rhinos, monkeys, crocodiles and spiders--spends so much time on the how of special effects that it neglects the why of characterization. Jumanji wastes the gifts of two terrific comic actors, Robin Williams and David Alan Grier, and some other good people (Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt). Like the viewer, everyone on-screen pretty much sits back, gets strapped in and takes a bumpy techno-thrill ride through a haunted house...
...disrupt any existing public service activity or program," which implies that Professor Coles, Master Kiely, Councillor Duehay, the Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth Reeves '72 and 1,500 to 2,000 undergraduates, were all simply deluded in the outrage they expressed at last Thursday's rally. When an objective viewer begins to consider the experience, knowledge and personal investment of those who are most upset, delusions seem unlikely. Given Lewis and Skocpol's relative inexperience regarding Harvard public service, their evaluation is much harder to believe...
...mediocrity that plagues "Arms and the Man" lingers in the mind long after the show. George Bernard Shaw's uninteresting play and the actors' lack of skill dashed the production's chances for success. With tedious dialogue and a predictable story line, the viewer spends a lot of time wondering when the performance will...