"Summer Turns Prehistoric, Pretty, and Pantheistic"
"Also, critics' responses to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Legally Blonde, The Score, and other movies."
Jeffrey Overstreet | posted 7/01/2001 12:00AM
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I saw The Scoreover the weekend and, while there are few actors I enjoy more than DeNiro, and few young actors as surprising as Norton, I too saw the ending's twist long before it took place, and found the film's celebration of criminal acts unjustifiably heartless. The Score is sophisticated entertainment, a sugarcoated lie made very easy to swallow.
Still Cooking
It would be easy to continue offering opportunity for readers to consider the challenging contradictions, strengths, and flaws within the movie A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). But we've got to move on to other things. So let me offer three last links: new reviews from J. Robert Parks at The Phantom Tollbooth (disappointed), The Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum (intellectually inspired), and Peter T. Chattaway at The Vancouver Sun (pondering the deeper implications of why movie robots win our affections so easily).
Next week:What other critics are saying about Jurassic Park 3, as well as initial reactions to Julia Roberts and John Cusack in America's Sweethearts.
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Related Elsewhere
Earlier Film Forum postings include these other movies in the box-office top ten: Cats & Dogs, Scary Movie 2, The Fast and the Furious, Dr. Dolittle 2, Kiss of the Dragon, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and Shrek.
See also today's Film Forum bonus article, "Naked Truths | Critics weigh in on what makes nudity in film wrong, right, and R-rated."
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