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High praise for rookie director Darren Aronofsky's $60,000 thriller about the paranoid mind of a math genius: "a personal, visionary ...
No one outside Warners knows much about the Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman thriller set to be released on July 16 after an eyes-wide-opening 15 months of shoots and reshoots.
This is essentially a twilit remake of his wonderful 1977 thriller, The Late Show , in which a senior citizen shamus (Art Carney) wrestles with both a brutal murder and the innumerable humiliations of aging (they're connected), happily assisted by a New Age flake (Lily Tomlin, in her most exuberant screen performance).
Into this category go Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune , who recently gave a rave to Armageddon ; his Sneak Previews buddy Roger Ebert (who calls The Negotiator "a thriller that really hums along"); David Ansen of Newsweek ; and Richard Schickel of Time . Even Janet Maslin of the New York Times , intelligent though she is, seems headed down this slope when she enthuses about Lethal Weapon 4 or prostrates herself before the latest Spielberg.
A profile of thriller novelist Stephen King finds him surprisingly ordinary: a salt of the earth guy who cooks his own dinners, plays tennis with his son, marvels at bank cards, and harbors a passion for books.