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WHOWILLHAVEDUNIT.('Minority Report')

The New Yorker

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The worst thing about the new Steven Spielberg picture is the title, "Minority Report." The best thing about it is pretty much everything else. After his unhappy fathomings of the future with "A.I.," Spielberg has plunged back in and fished up something rich and strange. "Minority Report" is set in the year 2054, and Spielberg, who knows better than anyone how to knead the homely into the exotic, is careful to suggest that, for every shift in social mores, other details have stayed the same. Businessmen still wear a suit and tie to the office; policemen, on the other hand, race toward trouble spots not in a wailing squad car but in the belly of a giant hair dryer. The ...

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