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A production error in ''Say Everything,'' last week's review of Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy and other talk-filled Gen-X films, left readers without Mike D'Angelo's final words and grades. D'Angelo called Amy ''as cinematically inept as it is dramatically audacious,'' then concluded: Smith has now made three films without yet demonstrating that he has the slightest idea of how to wield a movie camera. His idea of ingenuity is to have his characters throw darts at the camera, or to none-too-subtly intercut the emotional violence of an argument at a hockey game with the violence in the rink. That he's hardly alone in this inadequacy is small consolation. It's time for the next generation of auteurs to demonstrate that they can walk the walk as well as talk the talk. Walking and Talking: B- Kicking and Screaming: A- Chasing Amy: B- (The entire review may be found online at www.ew.com.)
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