We need more film reviews like this one: “We don’t even have to show our faces to reinvent ourselves. In a chat room, anyone can be a Ripley—or whoever. It’s a liberating time in the history of a protean nation, and also a conflicting one. ‘The American is always on the way to someplace else,’ Lewis Lapham once wrote, but perhaps never as quickly or universally as in the high-velocity world of right now. While Ripley has to laboriously scratch out a passport photo to trade in an identity, we can do it in a digital click.” Frank Rich, as only he can, opens up what the film critic is allowed to review and produces one of my top-five favorite film reviews ever on Anthony Minghella’s cerebral thriller of 1999, The Talented Mr. Ripley.