Word: heroic
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...both cried and hugged each other and prayed." As McCarthy recovered from surgery, his superiors praised him for executing his mission perfectly. Said Jerry Parr, head of the presidential protection detail: "I think what Agent McCarthy did was most heroic." His eldest sister Laurie joked that "thousands of relatives" would soon be flying to Washington to see their "hero...
...hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie can dare to trip over its pretensions- and still fly. -By Richard Corliss
...works, in part, because Czech-born Director Ivan Passer (Intimate Lighting) is a junk-ball twirler with an ability to put a loony backspin on bitterness. In his pictures people strike out laughing. More important, he finds a way to make one care about losers without imputing hidden heroic virtues to them. And Writer Fiskin knows how to construct revealing scenes economically, with characters talking truly tough instead of merely smart-mouth...
...Cora in The Postman, Jessica Lange is tall and erect and self-possessed. Her anarchic blond hair frames a face dominated by classic cheekbones and sulfurous dark eyes, suggesting a Faye Dunaway who does not yet know she is beautiful. She has the strength and solidity of a heroic sculpture-Maillol's Leda, perhaps-a peasant-goddess rooted in the earth. With this performance, Lange has passed from the status of minor curiosity as the heroine of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to that of respected actress and, maybe, star. Jack Nicholson thinks so: he calls...
Like Kane, the picture concerns a film maker (Krystyna Janda) who seeks to penetrate the past of a heroic-or, anyway, well-publicized-figure who has fallen from grace. Edgy, abrasive, in secure, she is in her own right a fascinating figure of the moment as she fights her way through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough...