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...despite its flaws, Beijing Doll opens a window to the seemingly aimless lives of China's urban youth. Chun doesn't fight to defend her freedom by marching on Tiananmen Square; she does it by skipping school and dyeing her hair bright red. In China today, that's what passes for rebellion...
...SETUP If you think Peter Parker is alienated and nerdy, check out Andy, a feckless, aimless orphan whose father left him an unusual legacy: superstrength and a ray gun that instantly annihilates its victims. Eightball positively crackles with self-loathing and pop-culture smarts and crawls with the kind of weirdo loners Clowes portrayed so well in Ghost World. Every frame is like a melancholy miniature Daumier, rendered in pulpy primary colors. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about comic books--sorry, graphic novels--check out Clowes. Nobody does them better...
...world of A Grand is a familiar one, populated by geezers: track-suited young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner...
Both Harvard and the puck floated in the wrong direction, aimless, off-course, wandering an unforeseeable path...
...Linklater’s been hit-and-miss for a few years—School of Rock aside, Tape underwhelmed me, and all that Waking Life had going for it was innovative presentation (there’s that dubious “I” word again) and enough aimless, useless philosophizing to fill a semester of Moral Reasoning lectures—but I am very pumped for the Ethan/Julie reunion. It’s the next best thing to the Brief Encounter sequel that we never...