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"Toronto Film Festival: Tuesday, September 9\n\n\u201CELECTION ENVY?\u201D a headline in some Canadian paper wondered yesterday. In case you don\u2019t know, the Other-White-Meat Country is currently ramping up to an election of its own\u2014pitting incumbent Conservative Stephen Harper, who looks like he once played Sandy Duncan\u2019s boyfriend on a forgotten sitcom, against Liberal Stephane Dion, who apparently is not related to Celine. Even here, though, they\u2019d rather talk about ours, which I\u2019m starting to seriously miss myself\u2014the buzz, those punting pundits, the way Cindy McCain looks as if she spends her spare time watching Dynasty reruns and snickering at how much they got wrong. But enough of asking for your pity.\nThe box-office jinx on movies that deal with the Iraq war is so notorious by now that Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s terrific The Hurt Locker has all the odds stacked against it for other reasons besides its terrible title. Anyone who\u2019s ever seen Bigelow\u2019s work can probably tell you that protest flicks aren\u2019t her thing. With her old-fashioned belief that the point of action is to expose character, she\u2019s just drawn to hard but flawed people in high-risk situations, and lucky her for stumbling across journalist Mark Boal\u2019s embedded reports on life with an army bomb-disposal squad. There can\u2019t be many jobs more stressful than dismantling IEDs in the streets outside Baghdad\u2019s Green Zone.\nJeremy Renner, who in this role is a whiz at treating his own dialogue as a mere impediment to eloquently showing us how masculinity works, plays Sgt. Will James, the new team leader in a three-man unit with just 38 days left to go until their company is rotated back Stateside. As the calendar counts down, we watch them coping with one nerve-wracking crisis after another, from defusing a car bomb to defusing a human one. They\u2019re the go-to guys in an environment where literally anything can explode.\nEach episode is a marvel of protracted tension\u2014one sequence of a desert ambush, especially, is about as expertly staged as these things get, with no visual information aside from what the characters themselves..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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