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...Belarusian people have acquired a national identity and the desire for an independent country of their own. First it was just a minority, then this feeling took over the majority," he says. "The same will happen with democracy. It's the minority who start." Throughout lunch, a plainclothes cop is standing by the window outside. "He is a police major," says Statkevich. "Not a bad guy, but he has to follow the kgb orders." A kgb of the old school is just part of what makes Lukashenko's Belarus such a throwback to the Soviet past. Statkevich...
...credit for Phoenix's performance has to go to Mangold, who has always been good at finding the bleak melodrama in taciturn souls: Pruitt Taylor Vince's short-order cook in Heavy, Sly Stallone's tired sheriff in Cop Land. If Mangold's new movie has a problem, it's that he and co-screenwriter Gill Dennis sometimes walk the lines of the inspirational biography too rigorously. John's father, Ray Cash (Robert Patrick), is a one-note ogre who blames John for surviving his more adored younger brother, and whose condemnation of the singer lasts way longer than...
...Harvard or MIT guys with drug habits and alcohol habits,” the cop says. “They gravitate back to Harvard, and what Harvard usually does is [to place no-] trespass [orders against] them. They seem intelligent, they’ve been somewhere. These people stay hidden because no one goes up and talks to them...
After coffee, the cop steps outside to tell FM that the semiconscious girl is strung out at the moment. He’s talking her straight, but circa 7:40 a.m., it’s slow going...
...Final Word: In the movie “Kindergarten Cop,” Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Detective Richard Kimble, a lonely police officer who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, juices a bad girl on the run, and then hits the road. Combining themes of foreigners, school, and juicing, the movie is really a metaphor for the perfect college visit. Get in, wreak havoc...