Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true mastermind, Malkovich's character seems to be the cleverest person on the screen, which forces us to see Horrigan as someone definitely past his prime. Booth is a deep villain who sees meaning to what he's doing and attacks Eastwood's character psychologically. As a source of suspense, Malkovich's character is limitless, especially with the phone close-ups and chase scenes designed by director Wolfgang Peterson...
...movie doesn't need complex and creative filming techniques and the villain doesn't even have to die in an bizarre way. The action and suspense take over the show so none of that matters. "In the Line of Fire" keeps the audience yanking the pieces of the intrigue as if they were onion skins and makes them cry for more...
...embraces -- and this is the last time we'll point this out, Hollywood, so listen up -- the cockamamie conventions of the thriller genre: the buddy-partner who announces his retirement, then dies violently; the smart female officer who's around for window dressing and romantic relief; the pot-bellied villain who is more athletic than the slim, trim hero; and the mandatory climactic chase, in which the bad guy loads his gun, the good guy careers across town, and the moviegoer checks his watch...
...about the harmful effects of overexposure to the sun. And so, as the countdown proceeds to the annual Memorial Day migration out of doors, the untanned masses must rely, once again, on their own best judgment. A close look at the evidence suggests that sunscreens are neither the absolute villain the Garlands make them out to be nor the perfect safeguard that beachgoers want...
Cohn is at once the play's villain and hero. Ron Leibman, in the role of his career, makes the ruthless lawyer a delinquent child, waggling his tongue, mocking his superiors, cackling as he spews abuse, playing the telephone like an organ as he hypocritically curries or grandiosely dispenses favor. Stephen Spinella as the sick, saintly queen and Joe Mantello as his unhinged lover are endlessly watchable, nakedly real. Alas, David Marshall Grant and Marcia Gay Harden are ciphers as the Mormons, he as stolid as wood and she vibrating like Jell-O; neither offers insight into the pain that...