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...others, Langella leeches into the president's anxieties, and summons much of the angry power of the private man - or at least our image of the private man. But this is an impressive performance throughout. Langella is not a natural Nixon; he has a voluptuary's face and a self-assurance the president only dreamed of. So he burrows into Nixon and comes out with a figure who is less a simulacrum than the definitive interpretation...
...They are self-replicating machines that do not require irritating minerals or mining,” Silver said...
...Drover just repeats the phrase “No man hires me, no man fires me,” over and over again. Perhaps the problems with “Australia” wouldn’t be so noticeable if the movie weren’t so self-aware. Just as “Moulin Rouge” was a musical about musicals, “Australia” starts out as a sort of meta-epic, with tons of fast shots, wacky henchmen in bar fights, and an overly precious voice-over from Nullah. The opening moves fast...
...coquettish or vampy, doesn’t preclude it from coming from a serious or earnest place. Songs can offer a meaningful perspective on getting older (LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”) and still have a backbeat. Artists need not be self-consciously serious to be serious. DFA artist Hercules and Love Affair, one of the forerunners of this new set of innovators, is another exemplar of this new, layered dance music. Their eponymously titled debut album has met with both critical and limited commercial acclaim. It is clear then that people...
...bizarre electrojam “Robocop” sounds like a Spector production, and it could have been a year-end roundup highlight if it didn’t digress into a lazy rant against his ex.Vulnerability isn’t new for Kanye, who’s explored self-doubt since “The College Dropout.” But he’s still emotionally opaque—animatronic, even—and it’s worth remembering that while he could see out of the famous venetian-blind sunglasses, we couldn?...