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"[F]or a while, at least, the sheer journalistic energy of what we're seeing grips us in a casually exotic way" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The trouble: The plot is horrendous and ends up with an "obligatory traffic control emergency crisis" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) that takes all the spice out of what had been an unusual study of group dynamics.
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."
The second biopic about record-breaking superstar runner Steve Prefontaine is deemed worthier than its 1997 predecessor, Prefontaine . "[A] richly intimate sports fable," says Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman.
Some critics praise it as having "the moody, disquieting undertow of a true moral thriller" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while others call it "too implausible for anyone to rescue" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Slate 's David Edelstein is basically pro: "The upshot might be melodrama, but it's melodrama with heart, bones, sinews, and tear ducts."
It alone "truly exceeded its advance hype," says People . Canadian director Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, about a school-bus accident, also impresses critics, winning him plaudits as a "postmodern Hitchcock" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Other favorites include Donnie Brasco, The Wings of the Dove, and Face/Off, while the well-reviewed Boogie Nights and Titanic both fail to make many lists.
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