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Monster role: Forest Whitaker rises to the occasion as despot Idi Amin.
Byline: Jeff Simon
Jan. 19--Some things just take time: wine, a really good scotch, the education of a world champion quarterback. For a quarter-century now, it has been near-universally known that the day would come that Forest Whitaker would deliver a film performance fully commensurate with his physical size. Greatness clearly resided somewhere within him, along with a real actor's willingness to search for it. It was just a matter of the right film and the right time and the right circumstances. We've seen him try repeatedly and come ever-so-close ("Bird," "The Crying Game"). But then we've also seen him making a living in dreck by the bushel and even ...
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