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Whatever their validity as measures of academic excellence, the annual rankings are a brilliant gimmick for U.S.
The whole damn film is a scant 80 minutes, and its second half features, among other things, Satan's soulful "Up There" number (please oh please let them do this at the Academy Awards), Saddam's pleas for sex, "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch" with a multinational chorus, Kenny's trek through the underworld, Cartman's obscenity chip, the blaspheming French resistance fighter, and the staggeringly brilliant medley on the eve of Armageddon--not to mention Winona Ryder's best performance ever (courtesy of Minnie Driver).
The task of decrypting these data stymies the most brilliant minds on earth, but when the puzzle is finally solved the scientists behold a set of blueprints for building a highly unconventional space transport.
(Although Brazilian car soccer is brilliant: Small cars ram a huge ball into a goal.
Full-throttle raves for this first feature film for French director Erick Zonca: "Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ); "brilliant" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ). The film follows the trajectory of an intense friendship that develops between two young women who meet at a sewing factory.