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But someone forgot to tell the writer-director, Rand Ravich, that a genre movie can't survive on fancy, high-toned portent alone--especially when the audience knows what's being portended before they even buy their tickets.
Despite protests from the Catholic League, reviewers agree that writer-director Kevin Smith's latest is "a tortured testament from a true believer" (Richard Corliss, Time ). What's more, this "obviously devout, enlightened parable" about a pair of rebellious angels (played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) is "mercilessly funny" and "gratifyingly cynicism free" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, and Alan Rickman round out the cast as the 13 th apostle, a muse, and a messenger from God.
My hunch is that Curtis Hanson, once a craftily offbeat writer-director who found the beat in a big way and made those thumpingly predictable blockbusters The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and The River Wild (1994), consciously set out to liberate himself from Hollywood hackery.
Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.
The writer-director of the ultraviolent Mel Gibson movie Payback squirmed uncomfortably in his chair on a dais in a Santa Monica hotel ballroom a few hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean, pondering the question of whether people who make violent movies are morally responsible for inciting real-world violence.
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