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And I'm not sure what Whoopi Goldberg is doing there as a lesbian detective with about as much verisimilitude as Goldberg's 500-year-old alien bartender on Star Trek: The Next Generation . But in the nebulous middle section, the movie develops layers, and Schiff and director Ulu Grosbard achieve something extraordinary: They dramatize the undramatized--the latent.
One of four new law-and-crime dramas set in New York, this one--starring NYPD Blue 's David Caruso--wins praise as "a smartly conceived genre piece" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Writer-producer Nicholas Pileggi ( GoodFellas ) gets credit for the show's verisimilitude.
The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.
Hoffman, for all his straining after naturalistic verisimilitude, remained dependent on acting-class exercises, while Olivier, for all his years of training, had so deeply integrated technique into his being that, like a classical pianist, he could stop thinking about it the moment he began performing.
He notes that Chinese painters mastered verisimilitude early on--by the 10 th or 11 th century--and spent the next few centuries developing Expressionist departures from it.
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