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...Adequate" sums up the Festival's offerings so far. No films yet have reaped unanimous critical acclaim. A few name directors are thought to have been coasting (Pedro Almodóvar's Volver) or tailspinning (Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation) with their latest works. Some directors of promise, like the Turk auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his Climates, have brought works earning mild applause. We see and we shrug...
...Richard Corliss...
Inconceivably, Survivor's first champion, RICHARD HATCH, 45, won $1 million on prime-time TV and failed to declare it on his tax return. In fact, Hatch reported a negative income for the year and filed for $4,483 in refunds. A jury convicted him of tax evasion, and last Tuesday a Rhode Island judge sentenced him to 51 months in prison. "It seems unfortunately very clear to me that Mr. Hatch lied," said the judge, adding that Hatch also tried to "manipulate other people." In Hatch's defense, that was once a winning strategy...
...films mix deeply emotional stories - soap operas elevated to art - with sensational performers (usually actresses) and a visual style both exuberant and perfectly controlled. All About My Mother (1999) and Talk to Her (2002) are a pair of flat-out masterpieces, the first of which was a finalist for Richard Schickel's and my all-TIME 100 Movies list, the second of which graced it. Bad Education (2004), slipping a story of sexual exploitation into a labyrinthine framework of a film-noirish narrative, was another knockout...
...Richard Corliss...