11.   A nicely diabolical early scene shows a little boy savaged by the invasive virus nicknamed the black oil.

12.   But the reason I gave up on it was an early scene involving Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov, playing a CIA agent and a KGB agent, respectively.

13.   Carpenter exhibits a sly sense of humor in the early scenes but then abandons this grim amusement in favor of Lovecraftian grotesqueries.

14.   Carter, who was brought over from the London cast, is not terrible, but he seems to disappear before your eyes in even the early scenes.

15.   Contrast that with the power of subtraction, chillingly demonstrated in an early scene.

16.   Director Michael Winterbottom strikingly imprints an early scene of the country boy gazing longingly at the university spires in the distance.

17.   Early scenes, outfitted by David Zinn, look like Halloween on Capitol Hill.

18.   Early scenes were of fox-hunting and racing.

19.   Early scenes show him valiantly combating the plague with modern ideas about hygiene and vitamin C remedies made from rose petals.

20.   Excellent question, despite the early scene in which she summons a courtesan for a question-and-answer session.