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[See “He Wore a Yellow Stripe,” The American Spectator of April, 2007, under “Articles”]
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[See “He Wore a Yellow Stripe,” The American Spectator of April, 2007, under “Articles”]
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. . .And, speaking of propaganda, there can be few more spectacular recent examples of the same than Ridley Scott’s G.I. Jane. Here is a film which has no single bit of characterization or plotting or dialogue which is not designed solely to persuade us that putting women into combat is right and reasonable and…
A parable or fairy tale of social renewal from the master cinematic chronicler of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie
A bizarre movie that looks like a vanity project for Robin Wright Penn, who gets to chew the scenery as a dangerously unbalanced but utterly implausible woman
Ben Stiller is at his best when playing unlikeable characters. He shouldn’t be trying to soften them and make them more likeable.
Like the new Psycho, You’ve Got Mail makes the fundamental mistake of remaking a truly great movie instead of some second-rater that there would be some hope of improving upon. In this case, it’s true, the re-make is not a shot-by-shot imitation, but it was a bad idea to pick a movie with so much…
Here are the good things about The Legend of Bagger Vance, written by Jeremy Leven from the novel by Steven Pressfield and directed by Robert Redford. It tells a story set in Savannah, Georgia, in about 1930 and never once mentions Jim Crow or Southern white racism. So familiar by now is the iconography of…
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