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IDENTITY CRISIS.(Wicker Park)(Infernal Affairs)(Movie Review)

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This has been the season of remake hell, and it isn't over yet. There is nothing disreputable in the notion of producers rooting through used material, and one could, indeed, find cogent reasons for arguing that the history of cinema has been the aesthetic equivalent of refried beans. Nevertheless, I smell more desperation than inspiration in the latest scrabble for ready-made plots, much of it powered by simple demographics; somebody, somewhere, must have done the math and worked out that "Big"--the Tom Hanks kid-swells-to-adult comedy--was all of sixteen years old, that a whole swath of teen-agers had never seen it, and ...

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