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Who’s in it: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Sydney Pollack
What it’s about: A UN interpreter (Kidman) from a fictional South African country beset by civil war overhears a conversation about an assassination. She must convince a tormented federal agent (Sean Penn) and his partner (Keener) that she’s not making the story up.
Worth watching? (star)(star)(star)
“Old-fashioned, full of big, romantic close-ups of its stars, wearing its UN ideals like an all-access ID badge, ‘Interpreter’ never rises above middling. … The big gimmick here is that (director Sydney) Pollack … was allowed to film inside the actual UN. … But we don’t go to movies for the sets, do we?”
