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...movies he's been an angel, an inspirational teacher and the Black Muslim icon Malcolm X. He's played soldiers, policemen, coaches, doctors. He's spoken the words of Shakespeare and Spike Lee. Even as a killer, in American Gangster, he carried himself like a cool chief executive, the mayor of the Harlem underworld. He has the gift of making melodrama seem plausible just because he's doing it. And always in Denzel Washington's screen demeanor is the sense of power withheld, of anger internalized. He doesn't shout or strut, doesn't need to. Why raise your voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...also-ran sweepstakes, the debut of Legion edged out another battle of angels and devils, The Book of Eli, $18.2 million to $17 million. The Tooth Fairy, a PG comedy starring Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson as a killer hockey player consigned to putting cash under kids' pillows, finished a close fourth with $14.5 million. The other new release, Extraordinary Measures, with Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford, earned less than half that. This true-life story, of a father's quest to find a treatment for his two dying children, was the first theatrical feature from CBS Films. Audiences took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Avatar Weekend: Legion Takes Its Lumps | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

Nicholson said he was never easy on Lewis. He told us that he accused Lewis of "being a murdering piece of shit" when he ran into him last spring. "What kind of f***ing asshole, if you're not the killer, sends the FBI on a goose chase for so many years when they could be going after the real killer...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Behind the Tylenol Cyanide Murders Might Be Living in Cambridge | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...addition, the post incorrectly misquoted Nicholson as saying, "What kind of asshole sends the FBI on a goose chase for so many years?" In fact, Nicholson said, "What kind of f***ing asshole, if you're not the killer, sends the FBI on a goose chase for so many years when they could be going after the real killer...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Behind the Tylenol Cyanide Murders Might Be Living in Cambridge | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...studio boss once described a good movie as "one that people go to see." Does that tautology make Transformers 2 a great movie? A lot of film critics - and even some real people - saw the film's popularity as some triumph of the clones. It's not that the killer-toy action adventure was a bad movie, though it was, but that it amassed its fortune almost by rote, as if its title alone, promising to duplicate the automaton thrills of its predecessor, justified laying down money for it. Transformers 2 didn't enter the national consciousness; it anaesthetized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office 2009: A Very Good Year | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

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