City Desk: Judgment Days

De Niro blinks his way through the movie, understandably unhappy to have been awakened to it. Brando, a beached whale wheezing and sputtering his way through his lines, at least gets to wear some expensive, though inevitably ill-fitting, clothes. Norton has some demented fun playing a hyperactive psycho posing as a contorted, shambling retardate, and Angela Bassett gets away with minimal involvement in a near- subliminal role. At 123 minutes, The Score is 0-0 after what feels like three minutes of play and two hours’ overtime. NR

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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De Niro blinks his way through the movie, understandably unhappy to have been awakened to it. Brando, a beached whale wheezing and sputtering his way through his lines, at least gets to wear some expensive, though inevitably ill-fitting, clothes. Norton has some demented fun playing a hyperactive psycho posing as a contorted, shambling retardate, and Angela Bassett gets away with minimal involvement in a near- subliminal role. At 123 minutes, The Score is 0-0 after what feels like three minutes of play and two hours’ overtime. NR

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