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...leader of the FBI team, Willem Dafoe (who played the martyred sergeant in Platoon and the humanist Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ) is a stick of righteousness waiting to explode. But the movie also finds recesses where human dignity and compassion wait to be summoned. It is alert to the shifting emotional weight and moral responsibilities in any relationship, especially in the quiet interplay of Hackman and McDormand, two ordinary middle-aged people searching awkwardly to be of use to each other. Hackman caps a brilliant career here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become caught up in the civil rights movement. Director Alan Parker powerfully evokes a time and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Dec. 26, 1988 | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become caught up in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Dec. 19, 1988 | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

MISSISSIPPI BURNING. As G-men investigating racially motivated murders, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe become entrenched in the civil rights movement. From the black community's frightened silence to the local lawmen's self-righteous denials, director Alan Parker has powerfully reimagined a time and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critic's Choice: Dec. 12, 1988 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...like Anderson, who does not seem to own a black suit or a snap-brim fedora, who talks like a human being instead of a prerecorded announcement and shuffles slyly rather than striding officiously through an investigation? Were there, have there been, agents like his immediate superior Ward (Willem Dafoe), hiding a passionate moral (as opposed to a merely legalistic) commitment to the civil rights movement behind a prim manner and a pair of half horn-rims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fire in the South MISSISSIPPI BURNING | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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