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High praise for Ali, too: "[H]is charisma makes the film" (Richard Corliss, Time ). The film's highlights: on-screen commentary from ringside spectators Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, music by James Brown and B.B.
"The studios sensibly scaled down" in the wake of the Christmastime smash hit, says Time 's Richard Corliss.
The most enthusiastic: It "triumphs by being its smart, shambling self, though it takes a while to get there" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Most critics say the tasty nuggets of fun are too few and far between: It "has moments of brilliance waving their arms to attract attention in a sea of dreck" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). (To check out the comic book the film was based on and to watch the trailer, visit the official site.)
Melanie Griffith and James Woods play a drug-addled couple who adopt a pair of young thugs-in-training while on a road-trip-cum-crime-spree in a sort of '90s version of Bonnie and Clyde . Critics like this better than director Larry Clark's first film, the teen shocker Kids , and Woods' performance is called "scene stealing" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Overall, though, reviews are so-so.
from the enchanted, irradiated island of childhood" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Critics appreciate its avoidance of hackneyed gender politics, and its presentation of the boy's colorful, cartoonlike fantasies.