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| | 2004: The Year in Movies - Flight of the Movie Club. By David Edelstein, A.O. Scott, Charles Taylor, Armond White, ... |
 | | So Annie is on Vincent's hit list, and Max, who's already expressed moral disproval with Vincent's job and has already probably lost any chance at his dreamt-of professional aspirations, has to save his romantic-sexual-familial ones. |
 | | To borrow Armond's mathematical model, Hotel Rwanda < Shake Hands With the Devil, a remarkable documentary about Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian U.N. general who was in charge of the peacekeeping forces in Rwanda and was the basis for the (blink-and-you-miss-him) Nick Nolte character in George's film. |
 | | That movie, which I saw within hours of Hotel Rwanda at the Toronto Film Festival, gets into all sorts of complexities about how and why the international community allowed the Rwandan genocide to happen in the first place—complexities, I would add, that George's film, for the most part, is happy to oversimplify or flat-out ignore. |
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