"Should a movie be this much work?" asked one critic. Wow, weve reached an Rosetta Stone age where even reviewers have to apologize to audiences for a movie that asks them to use their brains instead of just sitting back and letting Hollywood formula work them over. Director Stephen Gaghan has written a corrosive, many-tentacled script that actually lets you see the links between the oil crisis in the Middle East, Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism and the collusion of the White House with business interests whose main concern --- to quote a great Gaghan line --- is providing "the illusion of due diligence."4. Good Night, and Good Luck: George Clooney, as actor, director and co-writer of this riveting look at TV news, has some people asking whats the point of dredging up a fifty-year-old battle between TV newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn in a performance that deserves to be legendary) Rosetta Stone V3 and the infamous commiehunter Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Everyone knows that TV news is impervious to bullying from advertisers and political opportunists. Everyone knows that Murrows fear about television was ungrounded --- the box would never be used as an instrument to "distract, delude, amuse and insulate." Clooney merits credit for the uniformly strong acting, notably from Frank Langella as the wittily imperious CBS chairman, Bill Paley, and Patricia Clarkson as Shirley Wershba, a reporter coping with working in a world of men. Clooneys direction is so assured that only in hindsight do you realize the extent of his achievement. Shooting in black-and-white (cheers to cinematographer Robert Elswit) to evoke the Fifties, Clooney eases us smoothly through the hermetic world of the newsroom until we can almost Rosetta Stone German inhale the cigarette smoke and the creative energy of journalists doing their best work under siege. As a piece of direction, its a tour de force.5. Munich: Another chunk of history, this time dealing with the revenge that was ignited when eleven Israeli athletes were massacred at the 1972 Olympics by a group of Palestinian terrorists known as Black September. This mournful masterpiece is Steven Spielbergs harshest film yet, which is saying something, given Schindlers List and Saving Private Ryan. Working from a script co-written in a spirit of ethical inquiry and Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 unforced compassion by Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner, Spielberg focuses on an Israeli hit squad, led by former Mossad agent Avner Kauffman (Eric Bana).
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