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AIMING LOW.(Batman Begins)(Mr. & Mrs. Smith)(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| June 13, 2005 | Denby, David | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A young movie director on the verge of launching a summer hit would hardly seem to qualify as a victim, yet Hollywood can make casualties of even its heroes. Christopher Nolan, the thirty-four-year-old London-born director of "Batman Begins," first came to widespread notice in 2000, with "Memento," which tells the story of its baffled protagonist, who suffers from short-term memory loss, in reverse. Fast, unsettling, and sexy, it kept your mind on the edge of its seat. Nolan followed "Memento" with the underrated big-budget thriller "Insomnia," in which a sleepless Al Pacino and a nasty Robin Williams match wits among the stunning pale-blue-and-gray ice fields of Alaska. ...

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