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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 — 5A
ACROSS
1 Big initials in
tobacco
4 Devices with
scroll wheels
8 Many an old-
movie criminal
mastermind
14 Perrier, par
exemple
15 Sick as __
16 Jittery
17 Visitor’s first
attempt
19 Emphatic type
20 Training group
21 Like milligrams
and kilograms
23 Baseball family
name
24 Actress
Thompson of
“Family”
25 “My bad!”
29 Queen-to-be,
maybe
30 Visitor’s second
attempt
33 Hum a lullaby for
35 Common starting
time
36 Justice Dept.
division
37 Sean’s mom
39 Unlikely
Monopoly
outcomes
41 Student carrier
44 Peeled-off item
46 “Big crunch”
pickle brand
50 Visitor’s third
attempt
53 Asti export
54 Kids’ __:
restaurant
offering
55 “The Dukes of
Hazzard” deputy
56 Indigo source
57 Ottoman shelter
60 Playing marble
61 Nixes
64 Visitor’s last
words
66 How megastores
buy goods
67 Boo-boo
68 Snitch
69 Assumes to be
true
70 Ring units: Abbr.
71 Porter kin
DOWN
1 Baggage
handlers
2 Game with cestas
and pelotas
3 Seedy
4 Good way to
have it?
5 Knot-tying words
6 One with a racket
7 Stirred up
8 Conservationist
John
9 Against
10 Church official
11 Start to practice?
12 “__ live and
breathe!”
13 B’way setting
18 Seedy
22 Unspoken
24 Chicago suburb
26 Stomach-punch
response
27 Banned chem.
contaminant
28 Snow glider
31 Sushi chef’s array
32 Ship’s spine
34 Unable to choose
38 “Rings __
Fingers”: 1942
Fonda/Tierney
film
40 Wild and fierce
41 Emeril
exclamation
42 Le Mans article
43 Peek, for peep:
Abbr.
45 Toast, so to
speak
47 Ol’ Blue Eyes
48 Monogram
component
49 “Gigi” author
51 “Right away,
madame!”
52 Four Tops’
record label
58 Get all mushy
59 Invites
60 Long stretches
61 Bigwig
62 Brian of Roxy
Music
63 Airer of some
MLB
postseason
games
65 Clear (of)
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Masterful ‘Eight’
FILM REVIEW
By JACOB RICH
Senior Arts Editor
Somewhere, Quentin Taran-
tino is sipping a glass of wine,
refreshing
Rotten
Tomatoes
and laughing as
he watches the
critics squirm.
You
can’t
apply
a
one-
sentence thesis
to a Tarantino
film. You just
can’t. But with
the consistency
of the chang-
ing of the sea-
sons,
people
are
going
to
try. Critics have said that “The
Hateful Eight” is about race in
America or the cyclical nature of
war. It’s not. It’s also not a “bad”
or “evil” film. I’ve even seen a
popular, intelligent critic pon-
tificate on Tarantino’s “moral
compass.” To me, that’s awful,
and making a broad statement
on what a Tarantino film is
about is maybe even worse. Say-
ing that people are missing the
point is terribly elitist, I know,
but I can’t think of a better way
of putting it.
“The Hateful Eight,” Taran-
tino’s funniest film, is the worst
date movie of all time. Where
“Django Unchained” was crowd
pleasing even in its brutality, this
is truly, gratuitously dark stuff.
It’s marketed to the Applebee’s-
chowing, “Pulp Fiction”-loving
crowd, but this one’s really for
the weird kids: the trash cinema
lovers, the art room goths, the
Russ Meyer fans, the bitter, god-
less millennials.
Comprised entirely of won-
derful shots and even more
wonderful performances, “The
Hateful Eight” paints with the
ultra-confident brush of a writ-
er/director who has known that
he can do whatever the fuck he
wants for his last five movies.
When two bullets leave a giant
smoldering crater where a man’s
face would be, you know Taran-
tino’s crew did it precisely the
way they meant to. Come on,
you’ve known that since “Kill
Bill.”
Okay, okay — I’ll try to get to
some kind of a point. “The Hate-
ful Eight” is not like any western
I’ve seen (besides its aesthetic,
of course). It’s more like what
I imagine the real life implica-
tions of the board game “Clue”
would be like. We have expres-
sive, engaging characters with
murder on the brain, and the
fun is figuring out whodunit and
why. The filmmakers employ
Hitchcockian
suspense
with
frightening ability: we’re shown
the puzzle pieces and we shriek
with pleasure as it all gets pieced
together in front of us, one move
at a time.
Wait, there’s a “Clue” movie
already? Shit.
But even though the pieces
are all together, the cardboard
doesn’t form a sensible picture,
or at least one that you would
traditionally expect. Maybe the
final moments of “The Hateful
Eight” are like a puzzle picturing
a huge, veiny penis. That might
piss some people off, especially
since the box the puzzle came in
had a photo of a nice little John
Ford vista on the front. Going
again
by
Rotten
Tomatoes,
approximately 24 percent of you
are going to be pissed off. Try
not to be pissed off by the best
film of 2015. Enjoy the masterful
gratuity. It’s all a bit too much,
and if you’re anything like me,
you’re going to love every second
of it.
Much like life itself, “The
Hateful Eight” is a big beauti-
ful question without an answer,
and it ends abruptly. I get that
that’s frustrating, but, much
like life itself, I wouldn’t want
any of us to miss out on it.
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
Fur is so in for Fall/Winter post-Civil War.
Comedy queens
shine in ‘Sisters’
FILM REVIEW
Fey and Poehler
cut loose in new
comedy
By MADELEINE GAUDIN
Daily Arts Writer
“Superbad” is all grown
up in “Sisters,” a party movie
starring
comedy’s
female
dynamic
duo:
Tina
Fey
(“Date
Night”)
and
Amy
Poehler
(“Inside
Out”). Fey and
Poehler
play,
as
the
title
would suggest,
sisters who return to their
childhood home one last time
before their parents sell it. Of
course, they decide to throw a
party to celebrate the symbolic
end of their childhood. And,
as is party movie standard,
it all ends in mass, drunken
destruction including phallic
wall art and a sinkhole that
eats half of the backyard.
In a role reversal of “Baby
Mama,” Poehler plays Maura,
an uptight nurse with chipper,
neurotic
tendencies.
Fey
unconvincingly plays her foil
as a drunk slacker who can’t
seem to “get it together.” But,
the movie isn’t really about
Maura and Kate, it’s about
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Both characters, as well as
the
supporting
cast,
seem
quite aware of the actors who
play them. The movie is funny
because Tina Fey and Amy
Poehler are funny, not because
Maura and Kate are funny.
The party movie has emerged
as a common, if not overused,
formulaic subgenre of comedy.
Most of the humor comes
from the misadventures of
the movies’ drunkest, highest,
and stupidest characters and
the fact that none of them
would be friends if they were
sober. “Sisters” follows the
party movie formula perfectly,
but while it loses points on
originality, it gains them on
scientifically proven funniness.
The party is exactly as one
might hope a “Saturday Night
Live” reunion party would be.
With a cast of full of late night
alums, the jokes are absurd and
plentiful. At times the movie
feels like a 2-hour sketch, in
which “SNL” ’s usual formula
of non-stop one-liners begins
to feel tiresome. “Sisters” never
stops to take a breath, cutting
frantically between Poehler’s
sexual misadventures, Fey’s
booze-fueled
rage
and
a
coked-out Bobby Moynihan
(“Saturday Night Live”) doing
“Scarface”
impersonations.
That’s why the sudden jump
to poignancy in the last 15
minutes feels so unnecessary
— it’s too abrupt a stop in the
flow of humor to feel like
a proper ending. We should
have just left Kate and Maura
hugging next to a sinkhole and
gone home.
The problem with “Sisters”
isn’t that it’s not funny; it’s
that it’s not clever. Headed by
two of the smartest, quickest
women in Hollywood with a
script written by a longtime
SNL writer, it is easy to be
disappointed
by
the
film’s
reliance on pure raunchiness
alone to carry its humor.
Every spare second is filled
with
swearing
and
sex
jokes — many of which seem
surprisingly retrograde for a
movie about women written by
a woman. And nothing screams
retrograde like a girl fight, so
it’s always disappointing when
a movie that passes the Bechdel
test decides to pit its leading
ladies against each other in a
mud brawl.
What saves “Sisters” is its
longer, more developed gags.
A scene in which Maura’s love
interest, played by “The Mindy
Project” ’s Ike Barinholtz, gets
a music box stuck up his butt
and an ongoing joke where
Tina Fey tries to woo a drug
dealer played by John Cena
(“Trainwreck”)
ground
the
movie in some well-developed
humor. It’s a nice break from
constant
one-liners
and
provides the opportunity for
Fey and Poehler to flex their
comedic muscles without being
out-shouted by the supporting
cast.
“Sisters” is a 2-hour assault
of irreverence. It’s not the best
work from comedy’s girl power
dynamic duo, but it’s funny and
finds moments of cleverness.
It’s the perfect movie to see if
you need a mindless break from
talking to relatives this holiday.
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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Sister
Universal
Pictures
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A
The
Hateful
Eight
The Weinstein
Company
Rave & Quality 16
It all ends in
mass, drunken
destruction.
“Sisters” is
a 2-hour
assault of
irreverence.
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