What kept her going indefatigably for roughly a half-century in the dog-eat-dog newspaper business was her quiet, unstated, but fully justified certitude that she was making a difference with each layout and the creativity that made it compelling reading.

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Gary Oldman, who plays Dracula, is perfectly opaque and remote in the seduction scenes: he has no sex appeal. (As the old Dracula, leering wrinkedly beneath a crullerlike coiffure, Oldman has his moments, though.) The picture just keeps coming at us indefatigably, unstoppably, as if it were pursuing us through eternity, and it leaves us feeling mysteriously drained.

NEWYORKER: Bram Stoker��s Dracula