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" 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made. "
Elvis Mitchell
Finest
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" Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-boy braggadocio of hip-hop is impossible to imagine without him. So it makes sense that one of his spiritual children, the sunny-dispositioned rapper turned actor Will Smith, would play him. "
Elvis Mitchell
Children
Saying
Impossible
" The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich. "
Elvis Mitchell
Space
Like
Gene
" The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride? "
Elvis Mitchell
Action
Integrity
Ride
" Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others. "
Elvis Mitchell
You
Remember
Attention
" In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it. "
Elvis Mitchell
Say
You
Fire
" 'Ravenna' is, in many ways, the ultimate example of how a woman's perception of herself can lead to this horrible road being taken. "
Elvis Mitchell
Woman
Road
Lead
" Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy. "
Elvis Mitchell
Never
Become
Lighter
" Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. "
Elvis Mitchell
Before
Seeing
Narrative
" For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tough
Team
Good
" The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker. "
Elvis Mitchell
Surprise
Artist
Director
" It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot. "
Elvis Mitchell
American
Kind
Movies
" 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea. "
Elvis Mitchell
Bad
Picture
Man
" Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women. "
Elvis Mitchell
Work
Working
Women
" The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call. "
Elvis Mitchell
Phone Call
Phone
Change
" Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died? "
Elvis Mitchell
Michael Jackson
Remember
Where
" The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the 'Once Upon a Time in China' series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical. "
Elvis Mitchell
Lift
Time
Pictures
" That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you. "
Elvis Mitchell
Part
Success
You
" Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it. "
Elvis Mitchell
She
Acting
Blue
" I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it. "
Elvis Mitchell
Life
Wanting
Pretty
" It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it's going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again. "
Elvis Mitchell
Music
Live
Fear
" The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Lost
Movies
Mood
" I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band. "
Elvis Mitchell
Late
Legend
American
" 'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri. "
Elvis Mitchell
Famous
Picture
Fight
" Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then marooning them there. No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams - that fascinating and frightening aspect of having something that seems to represent good become evil - in the way this master Japanese animator does. "
Elvis Mitchell
Way
Wish
Evil
" In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public. "
Elvis Mitchell
Concentration
Politician
World
" I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center. "
Elvis Mitchell
Culture
Real
New
" No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories. "
Elvis Mitchell
Determination
Movies
Career
" '8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country. "
Elvis Mitchell
Country
Class
Clowns
" The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist is named Jimmy Smith, the thoughtful '8 Mile' is a raw version of the rapper's own story. "
Elvis Mitchell
Thoughtful
Rapper
Play
" The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. "
Elvis Mitchell
Community
Vision
Man