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...smart federal law-enforcement officer, his wit informed by years of experience and buttressed by all the latest crime-fighting technology; a cunning, daring criminal managing always to stay just an infuriating half step ahead of his pursuer; a final confrontation that begins at a large, celebratory public occasion, proceeds to vertiginous grapplings along the edge of a big-city high-rise and ends with justice done by the narrowest, scariest of margins...
...world by focusing on distinctly post-AIDS aspects of U.S. gay male culture. One of the book's finest moments is its discussion of gym culture and the erotic ethic of display that underpins and surrounds it (not, perhaps, originary to the epidemic, but unquestionably inflected by it). Any pursuer of the well-muscled male body, of any sexual orientation, would do well to read the "Two Bodies" section--which includes Miller's inimitable exposure of the sexual politics behind boxer shorts and tighty-whities...
...prepared for is the way writer- director Bruce Robinson, who created the marvelously quirky Withnail & I a few years ago, develops his material. Jennifer 8 (the first victim was named Jennifer) is a classic whodunit, with clues fairly laid out (often visually) and the suspense tightening as pursuer and pursued draw closer together. It is also a persuasive portrayal of an increasingly tense cop community (John Malkovich contributes a tough, scary FBI interrogator grilling Berlin when false suspicion focuses on him). Finally, aided immeasurably by the great Conrad Hall's darkly foreboding cinematography, the film is terrific to look...
...movie examines the interaction between Dunaway and McQueen, a master-mind criminal and an intelligent investigator, as their relationship turns into an affair. Unlike many more recent movies, the drama does not depend solely on the action and the sex, but instead, delves into the psyche of the pursuer and the pursued...
READING The Mezzanine is like discovering late at night at a sixth-grade sleep-over party that everyone dreams of their legs being unable to carry them away from a pursuer...