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THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS These are the performances, events and new releases that the critics from a variety of papers reviewed this week. We assessed the critics' enthusiasm or otherwise, and graded each on a scale of 1 (panned) to 10 (adored). We then divided the marks by the number of papers that reviewed the work, to give an Blair Witch "will do for the woods what Jaws did for taking a dip in the sea," says the People 1 The Blair Witch Project (Dir. Daniel SEX: Observer Sanchez, 15) People The low-budget, Sunday Telegraph high-profile fright- Irish Times. fest "simply leaves Mirror you too scared to Sight Sound said SFX: Average Run Lola Run (Dir.

Tom Twyker, Guardian 15) This "German Daily Mail Trainspotting" Times (NME) is a "fashion- Independent ably amoral" (Dally Scotsman. Mall thriller feat- Total Film: Turing "eye-popping: NME visuals" (Scotsman) Average 1 I ALBUM Michael Hutchence (Michael Hutch- Melody Maker 1 ence, V2) The late Observer 3 a rocker's posthumous Irish Times swansong "stinks Daily Mail like a two-year-old Independent said Melody Heat Maker. "Pretty ped- NME estrian," said Heat Average 3.4 BOOK Disgrace (JM Coetzee, (Observer). Yet the Secker) This year's Evening Standard Booker Prize saw "a masterplece winner offers a on another level" bleak view of Observer 4 modern South Evening Standard 00 Africa that is Daily Telegraph 8 "almost rancid Guardian 9 with unhappiness" Average 7.3 DANCE Irek Mukhamedov Company (Sadler's Wells) Sunday Telegraph 9 The Royal Ballet Times star's "superlative" Independent (FT) show was Observer 9 Financial Times 9 sophisticated, Guardian 8 profound, Evening Standard. 9 sald the Observer Average 8.3 ART Bowfinger (Dir.

Frank Oz, 12) Eddie Murphy stars as a paranold actor In co-star Steve Martin's "rather feeble satire on Hollywood" (Mall on Sunday) Tarzan (Dir: Chris Kevin Lima, U) "Though the Spectator couldn't "see the ape for the most critics conceded Disney's latest was a hit Evening Standard Financial Times Herald .10. Observer 5 Mail on Sunday 2 Big Issue (North) Heat 8. Average 6 Spectator. 6 Daily Telegraph 6 Evening Standard 10 8 What's On 8 Mirror: 9. Average 8:1 Rock Art the X-Ray Style (Joe Strummer the What's On co Mescaleros, Mercury) Independent Select appreciated Daily Telegraph "some pretty tasty Daily Mall 8 maraca stylings" on the ex- front- Guardian man's "anaemic" Select 6 (Guardian) comeback Average 6:9 The "lovely rumpled whiteness" (Guardian) The Turner Prize (Tate Gallery) Daily Telegraph The soiled bed of Evening Standard "Mad Tracey from Financial Times Margate" (Stand- Mirror 2 ard) caused the Guardian 8 biggest stir in this Time Out year's selection Average THEATRE Comic Potential (Lyric, Scotsman 10.

Hammersmith) Indep on Sunday. 3. Alan Ayckbour's Times: 4. futuristic latest is TLS 8 "millennial comedy Daily Telegraph 10 just as It.ought to Spectator: 9: be" (Spectator) Average 7,3 October 29 The Editor 17.