Actor Denzel Washington and director Carl Franklin have re-teamed for the noirish comedy Out of Time, featuring Washington as a police chief in trouble. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a review.
Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.