Breaking Away (1979)

A dark, European take on the classic Hollywood version of the myth of the American frontier, but set in contemporary Denmark

Do old people still fall in love? For sure. But does anybody really want to watch them doing it?

In the first paragraph of his review, of Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s movie, There’s Something about Mary, Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post suggests that the picture is not only brilliantly funny but also one in the eye of those carping critics (presumably those with “artistic” pretensions) who don’t believe that “it is enough for…

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Who’d have thought it? It seems that somewhere in Hollywood’s parallel universe the Sharks and the Jets are still rumbling.

What a lot of fantastical narrative machinery is employed to make an embarrassingly banal point