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It's a portrait of the artist as a perfect swine" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). British newcomer Samantha Morton steals the show as a mute laundress who becomes Ray's lover: "Rarely has a performer mined such complex and potent emotion from such simple materials: a smile, a shrug, an attentive winsomeness" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). One critic dissents: Mike Clark of USA Today calls the film "depressing" and only "sporadically amusing."
The region was unproductive and without great resources, except for the Sarawak river valley, where the Chinese mined for gold and antimony.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
Kureishi could have spun a whole film (and a more commercial one) out of this Birdcage opening, but he has already mined that vein in his hilarious novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).
Luscious paragraphs of whereases, corporate powers, trustees duties , and events of default can be mined from these monster quarries to be fitted, with no other purpose than to encumber lean documents that already perform their function.