CINEMA: DELETE KEY

SANDRA BULLOCK DISCOVERS THE DOWNSIDE OF THE INTERNET

She's shy, lonesome and doesn't do much with her natural prettiness. It's only after you get to know her that you realize she's bright and eager to break out of her shell and that crisis is her preferred cosmetic. It is the source of the transfiguring glow that makes Sandra Bullock's screen character into a doofus dream girl, a sex symbol the nerdy '90s can relate to.

In The Net, as opposed to Speed and While You Were Sleeping, she at least has a decent job, as a computer-systems analyst. But her Angela Bennett still doesn't have a life. She works...

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