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www.boxoffice.com - : The essential callowness that audiences have come to associate with James Spader characters doesn't provide a strong central heartbeat to support ''Critical Care,'' Sidney Lumet's scathing assault on modern medicine, but nevertheless the film gradually finds its own strong lifeline, establishing a tone and momentum that prove successful. Spader plays Dr. Ernst, an ambitious young medic who, because of a lack of care and an absence of caring, and due to his urge to dally with a teasing blonde (''Phenomenon's'' Kyra Sedgwick), finds himself swept into a nightmare: the ethical void of contemporary critical-care medicine. more...
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