Badlands (1973)
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This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment
The Blessed Virgin as drug smuggler? It’s OK, folks, as long as her own drug of choice is the blessed freedom — and wealth — of America
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn, written and directed by super-screenwriter Joe Esterzhas, is that most painful of spectacles: Hollywood satirizing itself. Let us be clear: Hollywood likes nothing better than satirizing itself, and there is never any shortage of stars willing to do cameos and play up to their stereotypes in order to…
An often funny but ultimately pretty trivial movie about the pain of adolescents with absent fathers
The good news about Go, written by John August and directed by Douglas Liman (Swingers) is that it is the best of the scores of imitations of Quentin Tarantino that have appeared since Pulp Fiction set the standard for hip postmodernism at the movies in 1994. It is therefore the hippest movie you can see…
A wonderful French film which, nevertheless, seems to expose the self-contradictions of liberalism and multi-culturalism in education in spite of itself
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