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Old news, you say. You've already seen and loved In the Line of Fire. Well, here comes another movie that deploys similar elements, including deeply satisfying star performances and high-energy directorial craftsmanship. The difference between them arises from a couple of simple role reversals. In The Fugitive the...
But this is not only a man who can only make himself mysterious, but also one who can be threatening to his friends. He says, "I'm sick, I'm tired and I'm armed too." The one-liners hardly rule the show, and after his quota is filled, Eastwood...
Both leaped to prominence in the late Reagan years: Seagal as a from-nowhere star in his first movie (Above the Law), Spy as the hipper-than-thou champion of attitude journalism. Both like to make fun of short people. Both offered sleek twists on tired genres: Seagal the martial...
Of the other national pavilions, the best is the American one, showing sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Now 81 and at the top of her form, Bourgeois is the chief heiress of Surrealist obsession in America. Though her work is sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of...
New Order's cult status has roots in the mid-'70s, when three of its members were part of Joy Division, an English quartet whose name belied its obsession with the darker side of reality. When Joy Division's leader, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980, the survivors formed New...