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...movie like POINT BREAK. No picture could be handsomer. The camera moves with bold, often devious assurance; action sequences are as sleekly muscled as the torsos of the film's jock hero (Keanu Reeves) and surfer villain (Patrick Swayze). Director Kathryn Bigelow has few peers at this aerobic cinema, as she proved a few years back with the weird, beautiful Near Dark. Here, though, limning the attempts of FBI agent Reeves to infiltrate Swayze's beach-bum bank gang, Bigelow often forsakes her wits. Naked babe nukes G-men. Hero weakly abets heist. Director defers climax for a little documentary...
...CINEMA Mike Nichols and Harrison Ford make a born-again weepie...
...CINEMA Will Terminator 2 justify its budget? Well, maybe half...
...CINEMA Forget blockbusters. Here are the two most beguiling movies...
When the body of Carla Tate washes up a few miles south of Santa Barbara, $ the flashbacks unreel in A Hollywood Life (Simon & Schuster; 320 pages; $19.95). The movie star, nee Karen Teitel, makes her screen debut in infancy, moves on to kiddie westerns and eventually becomes a major cinema celebrity. En route she passes through every Hollywood vicissitude and fashion, from child abuse to blacklisting to Vietnam protests to exercise tapes. She also manages to collect a series of husbands and lovers, most notably movie executive Jack Markel, who has all the Hollywood requisites: he is 30 years older...