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Chris Rock’s adaptation of — of all people — Eric Rohmer is often funny but morally and dramatically incoherent.

All Hollywood agrees that anytime someone makes a movie about TV or the media culture it is ipso facto a serious picture. And a picture — like, for instance, Natural Born Killers — which hasn’t a serious bone in its body can be instantly transformed into a serious picture by the addition of a “satirical”…

A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are

The problem with the super-hero is how unsuper everybody else has to be to make him one

Chris Rock’s adaptation of — of all people — Eric Rohmer is often funny but morally and dramatically incoherent.

All Hollywood agrees that anytime someone makes a movie about TV or the media culture it is ipso facto a serious picture. And a picture — like, for instance, Natural Born Killers — which hasn’t a serious bone in its body can be instantly transformed into a serious picture by the addition of a “satirical”…

A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are

The problem with the super-hero is how unsuper everybody else has to be to make him one

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