Article: Beauty and the beast: in `White Oleander,' Michelle Pfeiffer has the role of a lifetime. (Film).(Movie Review)

I HAVE A GOOD FRIEND WHO knows as much about movies as anyone. In the tradition of critic Andrew Sarris and his famed auteur theory, this friend once posited the Michelle Pfeiffer Law of Cinema, which, put succinctly, stated that Any Movie With Michelle Pfeiffer Is Better Than Any Movie Without Michelle Pfeiffer. I admit it's possible this had to do with something other than film sensibility But like a hanging, the Michelle Pfeiffer Law of Cinema concentrated the mind wonderfully when it came to making the sort of distinctions that confounds critics as well as gives them a reason to live: One no longer had to torture questions of whether Up Close & Personal is better than ...

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